Java Engineer

In this Java Engineer role within Version 1’s UK Digital Data & Cloud Practice, you contribute to a high-volume, low-latency trading client environment. You will build and improve backend components in Java and collaborate on distributed systems including messaging, caching, and REST interfaces. You help ensure performance, resilience, and production stability through CI/CD and best practices. This role offers hands-on development in a fast-growing, technology-driven team shaping financial services delivery.

• Quarterly performance-related profit share
• Flexible/remote working
• Pension
• Private healthcare cover
• Life assurance
• Employee discounts and wellbeing programs

• Design, implement, and maintain Java backend components with emphasis on performance and resilience
• Contribute to messaging, caching, and distributed processing layers
• Troubleshoot sequencing, recovery, and large-volume processing issues
• Support releases, deployments, and production stability activities
• Adhere to CI/CD, code quality, and operational readiness standards
• Apply performance, security, and resilience best practices in message handling
• Collaborate with Technical Lead and peers on objectives
• Participate in design reviews and knowledge sharing
• Raise risks and blockers with clear progress updates

• Exposure to trading or financial platforms; awareness of latency, resiliency, throughput, and failover handling
• Cloud-native applications with microservices on Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Java, SQL (SQL Server, Oracle), and messaging platforms like Kafka and MQ
• Spring framework and Spring Boot experience
• REST API development and application security (OAuth, JWT)
• Build and source control tools: Gradle, Maven, Git/Bitbucket
• Caching with Redis
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants and prompt engineering concepts is a plus
• Agile/Scrum experience

• Collaborative mindset
• Clear communication of risks and blockers
• Knowledge sharing and peer learning
• Java backend development
• Kafka
• Docker