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# Java Software Engineer

- **Company:** Better Placed
- **Location:** Greater London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Collaborative Software, Continuous Integration, Data as a Services, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Commercial Software, Software Maintenance, Redis, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, DevOps Tools - Open-source, Apache Spark, Spring-boot, Backend, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Restful APIs, Docker
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856364309-java-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Around 3-6 years' commercial software engineering experience
 * Experience building or maintaining REST APIs
 * Experience working with scalable backend systems
 * Knowledge of AWS or Google Cloud Platform
 * Experience working within Agile development teams
 * A genuine passion for writing clean, maintainable software

Any experience with the following would be beneficial but isn't essential:

 * Python
 * Spring Boot
 * Docker
 * Event-driven architectures
 * Spark or Hadoop
 * PostgreSQL or Redis
 * DevOps tooling and cloud infrastructure

## Description

Working as part of a collaborative software engineering team, you'll design, build and maintain the backend services that power a large-scale consumer platform.

One of the first major projects will be helping redesign and rebuild a long-standing public API, improving scalability, reliability and the overall developer experience for third-party integrations.

Alongside this, you'll work on high-volume data services, distributed systems and cloud-based infrastructure, helping shape the next generation of the platform.

You're have plenty of opportunity to contribute ideas, influence architecture and work closely with other engineers and product teams rather than simply delivering tickets.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Designing and developing backend services in Java
 * Building and improving scalable REST APIs
 * Working with distributed systems and cloud technologies
 * Improving performance, reliability and scalability across the platform
 * Contributing to architecture and technical design
 * Collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver new features
 * Following modern software engineering best practices including Git, CI/CD and automated testing


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