Senior Java Engineer £65,000 - £70,000 Hybrid: 2 Days Week My client will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this role. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom. As a Back End Engineer, you'll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you'll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you'll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. Responsibilities Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures Contributes to and leads technology communities. Minimum Qualifications At a minimum, here's what we need from you: Bachelors - Computer Science or related Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale Preferred Qualifications Bonus Points If You Have: Java (or any other major programming language) Spring Boot Spark (Big data analytics) Message Bus Architecture Containerisation (e.g. Kubernetes) AWS Cloud CICD pipelines (Jenkins)