• Designing, developing and maintaining backend applications using Java and Spring Boot
• Building and developing microservices and REST APIs
• Taking ownership of services throughout the software development lifecycle
• Contributing to system design, architecture and technical decisions
• Modernising and improving existing applications and services
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues within production environments
• Improving application performance, scalability, reliability and maintainability
• Working with relational databases and SQL
• Collaborating with Product, QA, DevOps and other Software Engineers
• Participating in code reviews and contributing to engineering best practices
• Supporting and mentoring less experienced engineers where appropriate

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial experience developing backend applications with Java
• Good knowledge of core Java and the wider Java ecosystem
• Commercial experience with Spring / Spring Boot
• Experience designing and developing microservices
• Strong experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle
• Understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, collections and common software design principles
• Experience working with modern software development and CI/CD practices
• Comfortable taking ownership of technical problems and working independently when required