Java Full Stack Developer

Senior Java Backend Engineer in Belfast driving the core Vendor Master Central platform. You design high-throughput, resilient microservices and REST APIs, and shape domain data models within an enterprise registry. You’ll collaborate with global teams, explore AI-assisted tooling to boost velocity, and contribute to data ingestion and governance at scale. This role offers ownership across back-end services, alignment with product goals, and opportunities to influence architecture and engineering excellence.

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays
• discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Learning and development resources

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade REST APIs and microservices using Java 21/25 and Spring Boot
• Create resilient ETL and reconciliation services to ingest and unify monthly data from multiple sources
• Design relational schemas, optimize SQL queries, ensure data integrity and audit logs
• Collaborate with React/TypeScript frontend to integrate APIs and data workflows (bonus)
• Leverage GenAI tools (Devin, Copilot, Cursor) for rapid prototyping and test coverage
• Promote engineering excellence with TDD/BDD, CI/CD, Docker/OpenShift, and code reviews
• Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical pillar within the global team

• 5–8+ years of hands-on software development with Java (21/25) and Spring Boot
• Strong RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and enterprise integration patterns
• Deep expertise in relational databases (SQL); PostgreSQL/Oracle/MySQL with schema design and performance tuning
• Experience building data ingestion, transformation, or batch processing pipelines
• Solid testing discipline (JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers) and modern DevOps (Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins/Tekton, Docker, Linux)

• Autonomy and sound architectural judgment
• Strong English communication and cross-team collaboration
• risk awareness and secure coding practices
• Java 21/25 and Spring Boot
• RESTful API design
• Microservices architecture