Senior Java Developer

Isle of Man

Permanent

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer to join their team.

Role Profile: The purpose of this role is to drive the successful delivery of innovative, reliable, and scalable software solutions that power products and services. By providing technical expertise, implementation support, and best-practice guidance, this role ensures that the engineering team consistently delivers high-quality applications that meet customer needs, align with business goals, and adhere to industry standards.

Beyond building robust, high-performance systems, the role exists to champion engineering excellence-promoting reusable design, efficient development practices, and a culture of continuous improvement. Acting as both a contributor and mentor, this position plays a vital part in enabling the business to grow securely and sustainably, while maintaining its reputation for excellence in the financial technology and payments sector.

Key Responsibilities:

To deliver software components to enable products.
To design and develop high-volume, high-performance, high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies.
To ensure consistent use of shared platform components and technologies.
To design and develop reusable libraries and APIs.
To contribute to best practice for application development.
To write unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality.
To be responsible for work quality, ensuring it meets the technical standards
To work to the Health and Safety policy.

Key Skills & Experience:

Preferred - Degree qualified in related subject.
5+ years of recent Java backend development experience.
Demonstrable experience developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm.
Experience designing or implementing public facing REST APIs.
Good understanding of the finance industry and payment systems.
Experience of the following is highly desirable: Spring Webflux, REST, Linux, MySQL, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Services, Ratpack, Redis.
Knowledge of database or NoSQL design and optimisation.
Experience developing reactive systems.
Significant and demonstrable web development experience.
Demonstrable experience of implementing best practice - especially around scalability, availability and performance.
Demonstrable experience of test-driven development alongside use of automated test frameworks & mocking/stubbing.
Proven experience of project working and commercial development processes - particularly Agile methodologies.
Experience of working in an environment where products have to be delivered to specific timescales.
An ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions.
Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own.
Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla), Wikis (e.g. Confluence) and code review tools (e.g. Gerrit).
Demonstrable experience of providing mentoring & guidance on any of the above.

Your specialist: Debbie Amankwa

Quote job ref: 16081

Hi, I'm Debbie and I look forward to receiving your submission for this fantastic opportunity with this business.