Job Description

Posted 1 week ago

Backend Developer (Contract)

Start Date: ASAP
Contract Length: 12 months
Rate: Up to £522 per day inside IR35.
Location: Mostly remote, with occasional travel to Croydon
Clearance: SC Clearance (existing clearance preferred but not essential)

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join a high-impact project delivering scalable, reliable backend services. You'll work with modern Java-based technologies in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment, contributing to systems that are critical, secure, and built to scale.
This is a contract role offering long-term stability, flexibility through remote working, and the opportunity to work on meaningful, production-grade systems.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain robust backend services using Java

Develop and integrate event-driven systems using Kafka

Build and consume REST APIs to support internal and external services

Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other engineers

Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

Support system performance, scalability, and reliability

Contribute to code reviews and best-practice engineering standards

Must-Have Skills

Strong commercial experience with Java

Hands-on experience with Kafka in production environments

Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs

Solid understanding of backend engineering principles

Nice-to-Have Skills

Spring ecosystem (Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data)

Postgres or other relational databases

OpenSearch / Elasticsearch

Node.js

Wiremock or other API mocking/testing tools

Experience working in cloud-based or distributed systems

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply