Brookwood Recruitment Ltd
Software Engineer II - Java - Backend
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Software Engineer II (Backend) — Insurance Offers | Greenfield Cloud Services Overview
This is 6 months initially The rate is £577.50 Inside IR35 umbrella per day, it is 37.5 hours per week 1 day in the Manchester office per week
This is a Backend Java Developer role.
Join the Insurance Offers team as a Software Engineer II and help build greenfield backend services that power insurance offers end-to-end. In this role, you’ll design and develop scalable, high-performance services, implement eligibility and configuration logic, integrate with dependent systems, and keep production services reliable. You’ll take meaningful ownership—making technical decisions within your team, improving service health through SLIs/SLOs, and solving problems that impact customers across mobile apps, the website, and internal systems.
Required Skills
- Strong backend engineering experience building and scaling services, components, and internal systems
- Experience designing reliable, high-performance systems with a focus on performance and scalability
- Hands-on ability to own services end-to-end, including monitoring and improving SLIs/SLOs
- Strength in problem-solving and prioritising work based on customer and business impact
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience writing and maintaining automated tests in environments with complex interactions (e.g., many concurrent experiments)
- Comfort assessing tradeoffs across languages, architecture choices, and risk (e.g., Perl, Java, or similar)
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Nice to Have Skills
- Experience integrating services with multiple dependent systems in a distributed environment
- Familiarity working in experimentation-heavy product environments (high volume of tests/variants)
- Experience supporting and improving production reliability for customer-facing systems
- Interest in contributing to hiring, interviewing, and onboarding efforts
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Preferred Education and Experience
- Preferred: A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Preferred: Professional experience at the Software Engineer II level (or similar scope), including independent ownership and technical decision-making within a team
Other Requirements
- Participation in team collaboration activities such as interviewing and onboarding may be expected
- This role supports inclusive hiring—adjustments and tools are available to support candidates through the application and interview process and in performing core job functions
Bring your engineering craft, curiosity, and ownership mindset—apply today and help build the next generation of insurance offer services.
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