Fullstack Java Developer - Investment Bank

Overview

Job Title: Full-stack Java Developer

Location: Remote UK

Salary/Rate: Up to £420 per day

Start Date: September 2025

Job Type: Inside IR35 Contract

Company Introduction

We are currently recruiting a full-stack Java developer on behalf of a global professional services client to work on a project for an international Investment Bank.

The Tech Stack

• Java, Spring, Hibernate
• Linux, VMware, Openshift, AWS
• CI/CD Pipelines via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus
• Testing of Database technologies (Postgres or similar)
• Full end to end quality tool-set Junit, Cucumber, Jmeter or similar performance testing tool
• Experience with caching technology or Kafka or similar streaming technology

Responsibilities/Objectives

As a Full Stack Java Developer on Core Payments Backend team, you will be responsible for continuing the modernisation of our applications that is geared towards observability, scalability, resiliency, and speed of delivery without compromising on quality within the payments ecosystem, including clients' consumers.

You will build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide teams, you'll develop and maintain full-stack solutions that fit our business needs. You'll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem.

By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you'll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production.

• Analyse, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and epics 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 influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides the 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 potentially leads technology communities for the client
• This group follows the Agile methodology and works in 2 weeks sprints, each engineer is responsible for writing their own test scripts to achieve full automation