Java Developer

As a Senior Java Developer you will play a key role in guiding and inspiring a small, high-performing development team, working on real-time in sports betting applications.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on leader who enjoys balancing technical delivery with team development and collaboration, with approximately an 80/20 split between hands-on architecture and coding and technical leadership (decision making, coaching, mentoring).

Collaborating closely with the Product Owner, you’ll oversee the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring that the product backlog is delivered efficiently and to a high standard. You’ll promote engineering excellence, encouraging best practices and contributing to continuous improvement across both team and wider organisation.

Are you a Senior Java Developer with hands-on leadership skills?, * You have strong backend software engineering skills and experience

• You have strong Java and Spring Boot development experience
• You have technical / team leadership, mentoring and coaching experience, you’re an advocate of software engineering best practices
• You have experience with Test Driven Development TDD
• You have a strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, multithreading, Design Patterns, Data Structures
• You’re comfortable with agentic AI coding
• You’re collaborative and pragmatic with great communication and stakeholder management skills
• Nice to have (not essential): Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS

• Salary to £78k
• Personalised training budget
• Pension
• Healthcare including dental and optical
• Various wellness experiences, gym subsidy, cycle to work scheme, volunteer days and much more
• Diverse, supportive environment with great career progression opportunities