We are looking for a skilled Technical Lead and backend developer with a minimum of 10 years of experience to design, build, and scale robust service-oriented systems.
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Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable microservices using core Java and Spring Boot, ensuring high reliability and consistent performance across service boundaries.
- Develop secure and compliant service interfaces for account management, payments, and lending journeys that enhance customer experience and reduce operational friction.
- Optimise SQL-based data access patterns and database structures to ensure fast response times, accurate reporting, and resilient transaction processing.
- Integrate microservices with Azure managed services to improve scalability, simplify operations, and enhance resiliency across workloads.
- Coordinate with client service and operations teams to support application maintenance, manage incident resolution, and ensure service continuity across production environments.
- Coordinate with DevOps teams to refine CI/CD pipelines that automate builds, testing, and deployments for Java and JavaScript services.
Skills:
- 10+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- Deep, hands-on proficiency with Java and the Spring Boot framework.
- Demonstrated track record designing and deploying production-grade microservices architectures.
Technical Expertise:
- Strong command of RESTful API design, and service interface best practices including versioning, error handling, and security.
- Proficiency with MySQL and relational database optimisation, query tuning, schema design, indexing, and transaction management.
- Practical experience with caching strategies (e.g., Redis) and event-driven architectures using message brokers.
- Cloud-native skills including containerisation with Docker, orchestration with Kubernetes, and deployment on Azure.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and front-end component development for web channels.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices for automated build, test, and release pipelines.
