💰 Senior Java Software Engineer | Contract | Financial Services | Essex (Hybrid) 🚀
Contract details
💰 £600 per day
⏱️ 12-month contract
🤦🏻 ♂️ Inside IR35
📍 Hybrid working - 4 days onsite in Dunton / Essex. 1 day remote
We’re pleased to be partnering with a leading financial services organisation to appoint an experienced Senior Software Engineer on a contract basis.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-performing engineering environment, working on the design, development, testing, and maintenance of critical software applications that support customers to engage with finance products online. You’ll play a key role across the full software development lifecycle, while also contributing to engineering standards, architecture, and team capability.
This role would suit a senior engineer who combines strong technical depth with leadership, collaboration, and a passion for delivering scalable, secure, high-quality solutions in a regulated environment.
👨🏻 💻 The opportunity
* Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications and products
* Contribute to software architecture and engineering best practice
* Help shape scalable, resilient, and secure backend solutions
* Work closely with teams to deliver high-quality, value-driven outcomes
* Lead or contribute to development reviews and code quality standards
* Support junior team members and work autonomously across complex assignments
🤓 Key skills and experience
* Strong experience with version control and CI/CD tooling, including pipeline optimisation
* Proven cloud platform expertise, particularly GCP
* Strong background in architectural design for scalable and secure systems
* Experience working in highly regulated environments
* Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills
* Experience leading development reviews and promoting best practice
* TDD / BDD exposure and a strong quality-first mindset
* 5+ years of engineering experience across backend or frontend technologies
⚙️ Preferred technical background
* Java (17-21)
* Spring Boot
* JUnit
* GCP
* GitHub
* IntelliJ / JetBrains tooling
* SonarQube
* Checkmarx
* Cycode
* Open-source licence compliance tooling such as FOSSA
🥳 Sounds like fun? Please apply with your CV and I'll reach out to arrange a call ASAP.
At Pixelated People, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your age, ability, background and identity — are things that we celebrate and support.