Java Developer - Contract Inside IR35 - Reading/Croydon
Cactus IT Solutions UK Ltd
- Extensive server-side, hands-on Java 8+ development experience with strong Spring, Spring Boot & Hibernate
- Strong understanding of Microservice architecture
- Experience building web services and APIs on REST
- Strong understanding of unit & integration tests, following TDD/BDD
- Experience using test frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Power Mockito & Wire mock.
- Experience and understanding of CICD pipeline of Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes
- Experience with Front End technologies: HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Mustache Templates
- Led a team of Java developers to deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Design and develop Java applications, APIs, and microservices.
- Work collaboratively with other teams to ensure seamless integration of software components.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
- Actively participating in architectural & design discussions
- Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance to the team.
- Take ownership of scrum team's timelines and deliverables
- Proposing solutions to complex problems that are in the boundary of the existing system architecture.
- Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Understanding of all the agile ceremonies.
- Experience in Relational Database Management System (eg PostgreSQL)
Nice to have skills:
- Knowledge of Workflow/Business Process Management tools
- Experience with Performance and Monitoring tools: JMeter, Kibana, Splunk, Dynatrace
- Experience writing Shell script.
- Understanding of Python
- Good understanding on AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, API Gateway and Serverless technologies)
- Integration Engine tools: Apache Camel and Active MQ for messaging, web services and distributed systems
Reference: WJ-5107_15199962 · Posted 12 Nov 2026, 04:59 PM