Role Title: Java Developer
Location: Northampton
Duration: 31/12/2025
Rate: £250 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Only
Role Requirements:
- Kafka deployment and integration.
- Spring Boot, Spring Batch & Spring Cloud frameworks.
- Experience of building microservices SDKs.
- Create low level designs conforming to solution architecture.
- Should be able to design API contracts using RAML.
- Design, develop, and customise loosely coupled web-based applications using Java/J2EE technology stack. Has strong OOPS concepts and hands-on developing web platforms.
- Possesses good understanding of integration patterns between presentation layer, business layer, and backend systems.
- Good understanding of following technology stack- RAML/Swagger, Mule, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot.
- Good understanding of API led architecture (system, process, experience) & concepts such as choreography, orchestration, synchronisation, exception handling etc.
- Understanding of API gateway management and configuration.
- Understanding of enterprise services bus framework and integration patterns.
- Develop integrations with backend platforms consisting of MariaDB, MongoDB.
- Good understanding of domain driven design concepts such as bounded contexts, context map, continuous integration.
- Responsible for unit testing and component integration testing.
- Knowledge of SCM tools like Bitbucket, Stash, GIT and should contribute in defining versioning protocols.
- Ensure team adheres to code quality and security standards using tools like SonarQube, Checkmarx.
Essential Skills:
- Hands-on experience with Java 17+.
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and REST microservices.
- Hands-on experience with some Async stack (e.g., Kafka).
- Hands-on experience with databases (SQL/No-SQL).
- Understanding of concepts around GC, multi-threading, design patterns, and the Java memory model.
