Sr Java Developer

* Delivery pipeline improvements (CI/CD, build reliability, deployment automation)

* Improving automated test coverage and quality across services, with a target of achieving and maintaining high coverage levels where appropriate

* Monitoring, telemetry, and observability for integrations with third-party services

* Fallback and resiliency mechanisms (circuit breakers, retries, failover)

* Making microservices more robust and self-healing

* Refactoring legacy services to improve maintainability, testability, performance and operational resilience

## Required Skills

* **7+ years** of commercial back-end development experience

* Strong hands-on experience with **Java 8+**, with **Java 17** exposure preferred

* Deep expertise with **Spring Boot**, **microservices**, and **event-driven distributed architectures**

* Solid experience designing and building **RESTful APIs**

* Working knowledge of **Docker** and container-based deployment

* Practical experience with **AWS**, including **Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, and KMS**

* Hands-on experience with **MySQL** — schema design, query tuning, and performance optimisation

* Experience with **observability** tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing (e.g. **Splunk**, **Datadog**, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)

* Strong grounding in unit testing with **JUnit** and **Mockito**, with a quality-first mindset

* Familiarity with **resiliency patterns** (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, bulkheads)

* Experience with **CI/CD pipelines** (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

## Desirable

* Kubernetes / container orchestration

* Prior experience focused on platform observability

* Experience working across distributed teams and time zones

* Experience with API and event contract testing, and establishing automated compatibility guarantees between microservices and their consumers