Java Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain backend components in Java, with a focus on performance and resilience.
• Contribute hands-on to features across messaging, caching, and distributed processing layers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to sequencing, recovery, message failures, and large-volume processing.
• Support releases, deployments, and production stability activities.
• Adhere to CI/CD pipelines, code quality standards, and operational readiness requirements.
• Apply performance, security, and resilience best practices, particularly around message handling.
• Work closely with the Technical Lead and peers to deliver against team objectives.
• Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Raise risks, blockers, and progress updates clearly within the team.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• BitBucket
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Cursor
• Docker
• Git
• GitHub
• Gradle
• Support
• JWT
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• OAuth
• OpenShift
• Oracle
• OutSystems
• REST
• Redis
• SQL
• Security
• Snowflake
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices
• Embedded, We are Version 1, a 30-year established technology and transformation partner trusted by global brands. We work with leading technology providers including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, and Snowflake, and we are a UK and Ireland premier AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle partner. Our UK Digital Data & Cloud Practice is growing, and this Java Engineer role sits within our high-profile trading client work in the financial services domain, supporting a high-volume message processing environment. We offer strong career progression and mentorship, flexible and remote working, financial and wellbeing benefits, generous leave, educational assistance, certifications and accreditations, and a range of reward and inclusion initiatives. We are an equal opportunities employer committed to a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace.

• Some exposure to trading or financial platforms, with an awareness of non-functional requirements such as latency, resiliency, throughput, and failover handling.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications with a microservices architecture running on Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Solid application development skills in Java, SQL (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) and messaging platforms such as Kafka and MQ.
• Experience with the Spring framework and Spring Boot technologies.
• Experience in Java REST API development and application security best practices (OAuth, JWT, etc.).
• Experience with build and source control tools: Gradle, Maven, Git/Bitbucket.
• Familiarity with caching services such as Redis.
• Awareness of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, and review code.
• Ability to apply AI tooling critically - validating, refactoring, and integrating AI-generated code rather than accepting output uncritically.
• Awareness of prompt engineering techniques relevant to software development workflows (code generation, test writing, documentation, debugging).
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.