Marks Sattin
Java Developer Manchester
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Job Title: Java Software Engineer
We’re hiring a Java Software Engineer to help design, build and support high-volume digital services used by citizens. You’ll work in a multi-disciplinary Agile product team, delivering secure, resilient services with strong engineering standards and a clear focus on user needs.
What you’ll do
- Develop and maintain Java services and APIs that underpin citizen-facing digital products.
- Translate business and user needs into production-ready code.
- Design and build reusable libraries and shared services, promoting reuse across teams.
- Create and maintain comprehensive automated unit and integration tests to assure quality.
- Contribute to solution design and technical decision-making with engineers and architecture.
- Ensure strong operational stability: robustness, resilience, availability and performance.
- Identify, diagnose and resolve issues affecting delivery and live services, including infrastructure-related faults.
- Produce clear technical documentation for wider consumption.
- Provide 3rd line support for products you help build, including out-of-hours support when required.
- Share good practice across the engineering community and support colleagues through coaching/mentoring.
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Essential skills & experience
- Strong hands-on experience delivering software with Java.
- Experience building microservices using Spring Boot.
- Cloud experience, ideally AWS.
- Experience with event-driven systems and messaging/streaming, ideally Kafka.
- Experience with NoSQL/datastores, ideally MongoDB.
- Strong grasp of modern engineering practices: code review, CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams across the SDLC.
- Ability to work with quantitative/qualitative insight to stay focused on user needs (including accessibility considerations).
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Desirable
- Experience defining team standards, leading design across multiple services, or guiding other engineers.
- Experience contributing to medium-to-long term product/engineering strategy.
- Experience improving service lifecycle practices (monitoring, incident response, reliability).
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