Senior Backend Developer | 2 days on site | Inside IR35 Contract

Overview

A top tier bank is seeking experienced Java Backend Engineers to join a global Trade & Transaction
Reporting team responsible for building and supporting systems that submit trade data to regulators across North America. The team develops highly reliable reporting platforms that ensure trade reports are accurate, auditable, resilient and delivered on time.
This is a hands-on Java engineering role offering true end-to-end ownership. Engineers are responsible for development, testing, deployment and production support, working across the full software life cycle within a collaborative international team

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and enhance Java/Spring Boot microservices supporting trade and transaction reporting workflows.
• Build validation frameworks, messaging solutions and reporting services that meet regulatory requirements.
• Develop and optimise SQL processing against PostgreSQL databases.
• Create and maintain automated testing solutions using JUnit, Cucumber and Spring Boot Test.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployments and release activities using Jenkins and related DevOps tooling.
• Monitor application performance, investigate production issues and resolve reporting exceptions.
• Collaborate with teams across Sheffield, London, Pune and Guangzhou, contributing to technical discussions and solution design.
• Take ownership of services from initial development through to live production support.

Technical Skills:

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot, including Spring Web, dependency injection and AOP.
• Experience building event-driven architectures and messaging solutions.
• Experience with Spring Cloud Stream and Solace is advantageous
• Strong SQL development skills and experience with PostgreSQL.
• Automated testing experience using JUnit, Spring Boot Test and/or Cucumber.
• CI/CD and DevOps exposure including Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus and Docker

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
• Knowledge of Drools, FreeMarker, Jackson, Spring Security OAuth2 or OpenAPI/Swagger
• Banking experience, but not essential as it can be learnt in the role

Why join?

• End-to-end ownership across development, testing, deployment and support.
• Long term engagement.
• Be a part of exciting Greenfield projects with one of the biggest banks in the world.
• Flexible hybrid model.

Pay: Up to £580.00 per day

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield