Senior Java Developer

Urgent contract Senior Java Developer role Start date - ASAP 12 months initial contract Hybrid - Leeds Office Skills/ experience: ● Recent experience with Java 21 (or later). ● Excellent understanding of TDD and BDD. ● Experience with large microservice architectures. ● Experience of working in an Agile environment. ● Be willing to work in a pair programming environment. ● Have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use. ● Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. ● Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences. ● Be knowledgeable of tools and techniques used within the wider team. ● Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours. ● Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience. ● Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X. ● Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques. ● Understand of the use of Responsive Web Design. Desirable skills: • Working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka. • Experience of MongoDB or other document databases. • Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites. • Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage

Location: LS1, Leeds, GB

Posted Date: 9/15/2025