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# Senior Java Engineer

- **Company:** CBS Butler Limited
- **Location:** Telford, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £59,780.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, JSON, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Oracle (Applications), Scrum Methodology, RabbitMQ, Scripting, Prompt Engineering, Backend, Gitlab, Git, Data Layers
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5890530787

## About the Role

* Strong Java engineering experience
 * Experience or awareness of AI technologies
 * Python/scripting experience
 * Understanding of Git (GitLab experience advantageous)
 * Proven leadership and coaching ability
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
 * A collaborative, quality-driven approach
 * Adaptability to work across different areas and priorities
 * Experience working effectively within Agile/Scrum teams
 * Candidates are required to go through BPSS clearance for this role

## Description

* Bring strong backend engineering experience alongside an interest in AI-assisted development
 * Join an agile engineering environment working across multiple Scrum teams
 * Help design and deliver new capabilities for the Auxiliary Self-Assessment Solutions (ASAS) programme, including the Historical Records Store (HRS)
 * Work with Java and Spring
 * Work with RabbitMQ and JSON
 * Work with MongoDB and Oracle
 * Use Python and scripting
 * Use AI technologies and AI-assisted development
 * Support system prompt engineering
 * Use Git and GitLab
 * Deliver within Agile and Scrum ways of working
 * Work across the wider product stack
 * Develop capability beyond core specialism across Presentation, Service and Data layers
 * Contribute as part of a team building modern services

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Backend
 * Git
 * GitLab
 * Support
 * JSON
 * Java
 * MongoDB
 * Oracle
 * Python
 * RabbitMQ
 * Spring, We are supporting a major Tax Administration Modernisation Programme, helping HMRC transform and modernise critical services. This is a 6-month rolling contract for a Senior Java Engineer, offered at £575 - £595 per day inside IR35, with a hybrid working pattern in Telford requiring 2 days onsite. We are growing our engineering team and working within an agile environment across multiple Scrum teams on the Auxiliary Self-Assessment Solutions (ASAS) programme, including the Historical Records Store (HRS). Our engineers are encouraged to become genuinely T-shaped and build capability across Presentation, Service and Data layers while working with modern technologies and AI-assisted development.


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