Senior Software Engineer (Java/AWS) - Belfast
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Belfast, United Kingdom
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 70KJob location
Belfast, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Java
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Relational Databases
Software Design Patterns
Amazon DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
MongoDB
MySQL
NoSQL
Scrum
RabbitMQ
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Backend
Cloudformation
Kotlin
Event Driven Architecture
Solid Principles
Kafka
REST
Terraform
Jenkins
Microservices
Job description
- Design, build and deliver high-quality backend solutions
- Advocate for TDD / BDD and engineering best practices
- Decompose complex monolith applications into scalable microservices
- Develop secure, resilient RESTful APIs with a security-first mindset
- Collaborate with Senior, Staff and Principal Engineers globally
- Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and production stability
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Coach and mentor junior engineers
- Drive engineering standards and continuous improvement
Technologies:
- API
- Backend
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- ElasticSearch
- Java
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Kotlin
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- NoSQL
- REST
- RabbitMQ
- Security
- TDD
- Terraform
- microservices
- AWS
Requirements
- 5 years backend engineering experience
- Strong Java or Kotlin expertise
- Experience building scalable microservices in cloud-native environments
- REST API development experience
- Solid understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns
- Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
- CI/CD experience (Jenkins or similar)
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Nice to have: Experience with NoSQL (DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
- Nice to have: Event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Nice to have: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM)
- Nice to have: Scripting (Bash) level and above
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Benefits & conditions
We are offering a Senior Software Engineer position based in Belfast with hybrid working options. You will have real ownership of Java and Kotlin microservices in a cloud-native environment, contributing to large-scale distributed systems. In addition to a competitive salary of up to £70k plus bonuses, we provide a generous benefits package and clear progression opportunities within our global engineering function.
