Lead Java Backend Engineer
Posted 2 days 6 hours ago by Harvey Nash Group
£75,000 - £85,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Newcastle Upon Tyne, City, United Kingdom, NE3 1XW
Job Description
Lead Java Backend Engineer 
This is an opportunity for a Lead Java Backend Engineer to shape the backend technical direction, bring teams together, and introduce modern engineering practices that support scalable, secure, and high performing systems.
What You'll Do- Lead key engineering initiatives and introduce modern best practices (design patterns, new languages, modern architecture approaches)
- Guide backend architecture and ensure high standards in performance, security, and reliability
- Support engineers through pair programming, technical guidance, and resolving high priority issues
- Drive solution architecture and influence major technical and design decisions
- 30-40% hands on, 60% leadership/strategy
- Mentor engineers, run design reviews, and foster continuous improvement
- Java (11+)
- Spring Boot
- Solution architecture experience
- Strong communicator able to influence decisions
- Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices
- Kafka & event driven systems
- AWS (preferred), Kubernetes, containers
- SQL & NoSQL databases
- CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, modern deployment practices
This opportunity is paying up to £85,000 and will be hybrid working.
If this sounds like the right next step for you, get in touch today to find out more.