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Senior Software Engineer (Java)
Job Posted: 6 hours ago
Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Contract
Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer - 6 Month Contract
Start Date: ASAP
Rate: Market rates, outside ir35
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Manchester, hybrid
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java, aligning with best practices for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Work with containerisation/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes) to deploy, manage, and scale services.
Develop and maintain systems on Cloud Platform, leveraging cloud-native capabilities.
Implement and manage message streaming / queuing architectures using Kafka (or similar), ensuring high throughput, resilience, and fault tolerance.
Contribute to CI/CD processes: build pipelines, automated testing, code reviews.
Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, DevOps/SRE, QA to define technical roadmap, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure observability.
Essential Skills & Experience
Strong and proven experience in Java, Spring Boot, in enterprise-scale backend systems.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deploying microservices in production.
Solid working knowledge of Cloud Platforms, including networking, storage, services like GKE, Pub/Sub, etc.
In depth experience with Kafka: setting up clusters, producers/consumers, tuning, fault handling.
Experience with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
Strong CI/CD and DevOps mindset; experience with automated testing, monitoring, logging, observability.
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