Are you passionate about independent music and cutting-edge technology? Be part of a creative, collaborative, and Agile-driven environment where your contributions will help shape the future of music tech. Futureheads are seeking an experienced Lead Java Developer to join a leading music retail and marketing platform that powers retail stores and artist platforms for top brands in the industry. Their dynamic team will embark on an exciting new project. You’ll play a pivotal role in designing and building technical solutions, collaborating closely with business, product leads, and a cross-disciplinary team, including UX designers and front-end developers. You'll contribute to our best practices and help drive technical innovation. Key Responsibilities: Facilitate collaboration within the development team and the overall communication with other teams. Help to scale up the business Mentor and motivate other team members throughout all project phases. Specify and Implement new features and bug fixes in the backend tech stack. Collaborate with the product manager, designers and stakeholders throughout the product life-cycle. Drive projects / work streams in collaboration with the Head of Technology. Strong capability to self-manage and prioritise work, and able to help other team members develop skills to do so. Technical Skills: Strong Java programming implementation skills. Solid understanding of software design patterns with a focus on fault tolerance. Experience with serverless implementation. Relational database systems (normalisation, implementation and querying). Extensive experience designing and developing microservice and event driven architectures. Experience with workflow automation technologies. Previous experience with AWS cloud services What We Offer: Highly collaborative work environment. Opportunities to attend gigs and cultural events. Regular social activities. A chance to work on impactful projects in the independent music scene. If you thrive in a fast-paced, scale-up environment and want to make a meaningful contribution to the world of music technology, apply now £70,000-£80,000 Hybrid - x2 days a week in London No sponsorship for this role We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.