Senior Java Backend Developer with GCP

W3Global Inc
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java
Cloud Storage
Profiling
Continuous Integration
Relational Databases
Github
Protocol Buffers
Identity and Access Management
Java Persistence API
OAuth
Open Web Application Security
Query Optimization
SQL Databases
DevOps Tools - Open-source
Spring-boot
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gitlab
GIT
Spring Data
Kubernetes
Avro
Kafka
Functional Programming
Terraform
Docker
Jenkins

Requirements

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Java 17: Functional programming features, records, sealed classes, performance considerations.

  • Spring Boot: Auto-configuration, profiles, Spring Data/JPA, WebFlux (nice), validation, actuator.
  • SQL & RDBMS: Schema design, indexes, query optimization, transactions, isolation levels.
  • Apache Kafka: Topic design, partitioning strategy, consumer groups, offsets, retries/DLQ, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf.
  • GCP: Familiarity with Cloud Run or GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, IAM, VPC; cost/perf trade-offs.
  • DevOps Tooling: Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab), Docker; Kubernetes fundamentals; IaC awareness.
  • Software Engineering Fundamentals: DDD concepts, SOLID, testing (unit/integration), performance profiling, and security basics (OAuth2/JWT, OWASP Top 10).

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