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Backend Software Engineer / Developer (Java Kafka) London / WFH
to £90k
Are you a Java technologist seeking a role where you can work on groundbreaking technology, continually learning and progressing your career?
You could be joining a global technology consultancy.
What's in it for you:
- Salary to £90k
- Hybrid working (x2 days WFH per week)
- Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection
- Private medical care for you and your family, including mental health
- Travel Insurance
- Charitable giving
- Gym membership for you and your family
- Flexible holiday scheme
Your role:
As a Backend Software Engineer you will design, develop and deliver a range of transformational projects for clients, mainly within the financial services sector and with a focus on Kafka messaging, migrating legacy systems to AWS and introducing CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments.
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You'll join a collaborative team with a focus on engineering best practice and continuous improvement of client systems; you will have lots of business and client exposure and continual learning and development opportunities.
Location / WFH:
There's a hybrid work from home policy with three days a week in the London, City office (or at client sites), you'll join a friendly, diverse, upbeat team.
About you:
- You have Java development skills including multi-threading and concurrency
- You have experience with Spring Boot and microservices environments
- You have a good knowledge of REST APIs
- You have experience with Kafka (or similar messaging tools)
- You have a good understanding of AWS
- You have a thorough understanding of software development and Computer Science fundamentals such as Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures and Design Patterns
- You are familiar with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines
- You're collaborative, enjoy problem solving and interacting with clients


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