Position Summary 

We are looking for a skilled Senior Java Developer to join our Experience Management services team. In this role, you will take a senior position in the design and development of robust, scalable backend systems that power critical services across our platform. You will collaborate closely with engineering leads, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance solutions that support both real-time APIs. 

You will play a key role in improving system reliability, optimising performance, and driving forward initiatives around observability, maintainability, and cloud-native best practices. This position offers the opportunity to work on high-impact services and contribute to the architectural direction of our Java-based platform. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as a technical role model, leading innovative and continuous improvement initiatives across distributed software systems. 

• Provide technical leadership, driving the development and maintenance of cutting-edge software applications while guiding project discussions.   

• Collaborate with product management to align engineering activities. 

• Play an important role in technical decision-making, conducting code reviews, ensuring quality assurance, and maintaining an active role as a code contributor to inspire the standards in others. 

• Mentor and coach engineers to help them progress in their careers. 

• Advocate for and implement best practices in software engineering and architecture. 

• Promote sound engineering principles, uphold high standards across the team, and provide mentoring to individual team members. 

What you'll bring: 

• Extensive experience of designing, building and running cloud-based applications using JVM languages such as Java, Kotlin, Groovy or Scala. 

• An understanding of container orchestration tooling such as Docker Compose, Amazon ECS or Kubernetes 

• Professional experience using public cloud offerings from any of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure. 

• Proven ability to integrate applications with various database technologies (SQL & NoSQL) to meet project requirements. 

• Extensive experience of designing, building and running highly-performant, scalable APIs. 

• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to engineers at all levels, non-technical stakeholders, and senior executives. 

• A strong track record of leading technical initiatives that result in measurable impacts and change. 

• Good understanding of Agile frameworks, foundational architectural and engineering concepts, API designs and agile best practices. 

• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate concepts, showcasing the practical application of your ideas.