Our client is looking to hire a Java Engineer to help build and enhance the backend platforms powering critical financial services workflows. You’ll work in a collaborative engineering team, turning business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable systems used in a regulated environment.
This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys clean architecture, high-quality code, and solving problems that genuinely matter to the business. Previous experience working within FS and B2C is preferred.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Java-based backend services and APIs.
- Build and enhance microservices using Spring Boot and modern Java.
- Translate business and product requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Develop RESTful APIs and integrate with internal and external systems.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and contribute to code reviews.
- Improve application performance, reliability, security, and scalability.
- Work with relational databases, messaging systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Troubleshoot production issues and support continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with product, QA, business analysts, and senior engineers.
What we’re looking for
- Strong commercial experience with Java (ideally Java 17+).
- Solid hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot and microservices.
- Experience building REST APIs and backend integrations.
- Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, and clean coding practices.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server.
- Familiarity with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile delivery.
- Good problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset.
- Financial services, banking, payments, fintech, or other regulated-industry experience is advantageous but not essential.
- Exposure to trading, payments, risk, treasury, lending, or post-trade platforms.
Nice to have
- Kafka or other event-driven/messaging technologies.
- Docker and Kubernetes.
- Cloud experience, particularly AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with performance tuning, JVM diagnostics, or high-volume transactional systems.