Senior Java Engineer (Core Java)
£115,000 - £145,000
Central London - Hybrid
A high-growth, privately backed Enterprise SaaS company is seeking a Senior Core Java Engineer to join its London-based engineering team. The organisation builds large-scale, mission-critical platforms used by some of the most sophisticated technology and financial services environments globally.
This is an opportunity to work on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems, solving complex engineering problems at scale within a collaborative, high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities
* Design, build and maintain high-performance distributed Java services
* Contribute across design, development, testing, deployment and support
* Collaborate closely with other engineers to deliver customer-centric solutions
* Mentor and be mentored within a senior engineering team
* Promote best practices around code quality, testing and reliability
* Participate in team support and operational responsibilities
Technology Environment
* Core Java (deep JVM knowledge – minimal reliance on frameworks)
* Kafka & event-driven architectures
* Low-latency, high-throughput systems
* Kubernetes (services, deployments, stateful sets)
* Terraform
* Hazelcast / Hazelcast Jet (bonus)
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