Salary: £40,000 - 46,000 per year Requirements: Strong hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot, including REST API development and microservice-based architectures in production environments. Experience working across the full stack, with practical exposure to frontend development using Angular or server-side templating frameworks (e.g., Thymeleaf). Working experience with AWS cloud services, such as ECS, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, or ElastiCache, in deploying and running backend services. Solid understanding of API security concepts, including OAuth2, JWT, and secure service-to-service communication. Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and familiarity with caching technologies such as Redis. Working knowledge of event-driven architectures, including experience consuming or producing messages using Kafka and/or Amazon SQS. Experience working in regulated, risk-sensitive, or high-availability systems, with an emphasis on reliability, auditability, and scalability. Good communication skills and the ability to work within an international team. Self-motivated individual and creative thinker who will take ownership of tasks assigned. Able to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy, demanding, and team-oriented environment. Excellent problem-solving skills. Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions and different roles. Good customer service skills. Ability to deal with difficult situations/individuals gracefully. Responsibilities: Design, develop, and scale Spring Boot microservices supporting MRV/MRD workflows. Build secure, well-designed REST APIs integrated with frontend and downstream systems. Contribute to frontend development using Angular and/or server-side templating (Thymeleaf). Work with event-driven and messaging systems to support real-time risk processing. Develop and optimize data access using relational databases and caching layers. Collaborate across product, cloud, and risk teams to support multi-region scaling. Support production readiness, performance tuning, and operational stability. Technologies: API AWS Angular Backend Cloud Frontend Support JWT Java Kafka PostgreSQL REST Redis Security Spring Spring Boot microservices NodeJS Snowflake Fullstack More: We are a dynamic team located in Basildon, UK, and we are looking for Full-Stack Engineers to help scale our existing merchant risk and compliance platform for multi-regional deployment. This 6–12-month contract position focuses on developing and enhancing our Java/Spring Boot microservices while integrating with AWS cloud services. We offer a collaborative environment where you will work closely with platform, data, and risk engineering teams, supporting a high-throughput, compliance-sensitive platform. last updated 19 week of 2026