VodafoneThree - Senior Software Engineer

In this role you will own and scale high-quality backend services, shaping the architecture of our microservices stack. You’ll work within a cross-functional IT team to deliver performant solutions that power customer experiences and digital infrastructure. You’ll mentor peers, drive engineering standards, and explore AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery. This is an opportunity to impact our connected nation while growing into adjacent areas across the stack.

• competitive pay
• bonuses
• up to 28 days off plus bank holidays
• pension plan
• learning tools
• parential leave policies

• Build, maintain, and evolve scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Go
• Own features from design through delivery and support
• Design robust microservice architectures and define service boundaries
• Broaden the stack by contributing to adjacent areas such as frontend or app engineering
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery safely
• Collaborate with product, design and cross-domain teams to deliver well-architected solutions
• Champion code quality through reviews, tests, and engineering standards
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices
• Define and evolve backend architecture, tooling and CI/CD processes
• Investigate and resolve performance, accessibility and stability issues across the application

• Professional experience building and operating production-grade backend systems using Java and Spring Boot
• Experience designing distributed microservices with clear API contracts and deployment models
• Strong understanding of asynchronous processing, messaging, eventual consistency, retries and fault handling
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating with internal/external systems
• Ability to diagnose production issues and improve resilience and observability
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong performance tuning and debugging skills
• Willingness to grow into adjacent areas such as web or app engineering
• Good collaboration and mentoring skills

• collaboration
• mentoring
• clear communication
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Go