Lead Java Developer

HCLTech

Edinburgh, UK

9 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Working hours

Regular working hours

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Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Cloud Storage Profiling Protocol Buffers Gradle Identity and Access Management Java Persistence API Apache Maven Enterprise Messaging Systems OAuth Octopus Deploy Open Web Application Security

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Performance Tuning RabbitMQ Prometheus Tripwire Grafana Spring-boot Kubernetes Helm Charts Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Spring Data Perf (Linux) Avro Apache Kafka Functional Programming Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Terraform Dynatrace Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

HCL is a $11 billion leading global technology enterprise consisting of over 200,000 professionals operating from 52 countries. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India’s original IT garage start-ups. For more on HCL, please visit www.hcl.com

Job Role

Job Title: Senior Java Backend Developer

Experience: 15+ Years

Work Location: Edinburgh, UK

Employment Type: Full-time and 6 Months Contract

No. of position is 5

Hybrid- 2 days onsite and 3 days remote

Job Description

Mandatory Skills & Experience

Java 17: Functional programming features, records, sealed classes, performance considerations.
Spring Boot: Auto-configuration, profiles, Spring Data/JPA, WebFlux (nice), validation, actuator.
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.
Software Engineering Fundamentals: DDD concepts, SOLID, testing (unit/integration), performance profiling, and security basics (OAuth2/JWT, OWASP Top 10).

Non-Mandatory (Nice-to-Have)

Messaging systems: RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, or SQS/SNS.
Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing.
Build & Infra: Maven/Gradle tuning, Helm charts, Terraform, Argo CD.
Security: mTLS, secrets rotation, vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy), supply chain security.

Requirements

Java 17: Functional programming features, records, sealed classes, performance considerations.
Spring Boot: Auto-configuration, profiles, Spring Data/JPA, WebFlux (nice), validation, actuator.
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.
Software Engineering Fundamentals: DDD concepts, SOLID, testing (unit/integration), performance profiling, and security basics (OAuth2/JWT, OWASP Top 10).