Java Developer - Contract Outside IR35 - Solihull/Croydon
Solihull/Croydon Contract
Posted by: Cactus IT Solutions UK Ltd
Posted: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Experience
* Proficiency in Java 8+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST and SOAP Web Services, Messaging service (ActiveMQ), Maven, Junit, Jenkins, AWS Cloud hosting and its components, Postgres/Aurora, Bootstrap, Docker, TDD, Agile (Scrum)
* Public sector experience.
* 5 years of hands‑on experience with large-scale Spring-based Java projects.
* Experience supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents.
* Experience in large-scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging, web services, and distributed systems.
* Experience with web services (SOAP and RESTful).
* Experience with containerization (Docker).
* Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Powermock, JMock, DBUnit, TestContainers.
* Experience connecting processes across several systems with message brokers like ActiveMQ.
* Experience with Continuous Integration methodologies – Maven, GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Stash Repository.
* Experience developing in a Linux development environment.
* Experience working with a suite of Atlassian products.
* Experience working with open‑source database management systems like PostgreSQL.
* Experience working with AWS services (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch).
* Monitoring using Grafana.
* Agile development methods – Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD.
* Strong analytical and decision‑making abilities.
Desired Skills and Experience
* Experience in Angular and Node JS.
* Experience in Jaspersoft reporting tool.
* DBA experience in performance tuning SQL queries and Postgres/Aurora DB config.
* Experience working with Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, and Spring Integration.
* Experience working with Activiti BPMN.
Details
* Location: Solihull/Croydon, UK
* Industry: IT
* Category: Government
* Duration: 6 months extendable
* Employment: Business Cactus IT Solutions UK Ltd
* Contact: Cactus IT Solutions
* Email: This Employment Business
* Reference: JS
* Posted Date: 2/10/2026 11:28:40 AM
* Permalink: http://www.careerboard.com/fcJ3B
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