Software Engineer – Java 21, SpringbootUp to £550 per day (Inside IR35)London / Remote6 monthsMy client is an instantly recognisable consultancy who require a strong Backend Software Engineer with deep expertise in Java (Spring Boot) to join a large-scale, business‑critical microservices programme. All candidates must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC)Key Requirements:
1. Proven experience working as a Java Software Engineer on large microservice architectures
2. Strong experience building scalable backend and RESTful services using Java (Spring Boot)
3. Ideally Java v21 (or very recent versions)
4. Postgres (or other relational SQL databases) with a solid understanding of schema design and SQL
5. Docker: confident containerising and deploying applications
6. Test‑Driven Development (JUnit, Mockito, or similar testing frameworks)
7. CI/CD: hands‑on experience with Jenkins or similar automated pipeline tooling
Nice to have:
8. Active Security Clearance (SC)
9. Experience in coding-intensive environments (fintech, payments, digital banking, capital markets/trading)
10. API specification using Swagger / OpenAPI
11. Gradle build systems
12. Liquibase (or similar) for database migrations/versioning
13. Kafka or other event‑streaming platforms
14. React and TypeScript
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