K&K Talents is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in United Kingdom who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.
Role: Java Backend Developer
Location: Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)
Employment type: B2B Contract
Mandatory Skills & Experience
* Java 17: Functional programming features, records, sealed classes, performance considerations.
* Spring Boot: Auto-configuration, profiles, Spring Data/JPA, WebFlux (nice), validation, actuator.
* SQL & RDBMS: Schema design, indexes, query optimization, transactions, isolation levels.
* Apache Kafka: Topic design, partitioning strategy, consumer groups, offsets, retries/DLQ, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf.
* GCP: Familiarity with Cloud Run or GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, IAM, VPC; cost/perf trade-offs.
* DevOps Tooling: Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab), Docker; Kubernetes fundamentals; IaC awareness.
* Software Engineering Fundamentals: DDD concepts, SOLID, testing (unit/integration), performance profiling, and security basics (OAuth2/JWT, OWASP Top 10).
Note: Applicants for employment in United Kingdom should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.