Senior Java Developer

Description Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives. Our client is building a high-performance engineering initiative focused on developing a brand-new, real-time banking platform designed for scalability, high availability, and zero-downtime reliability. The project aims to modernize the core financial infrastructure by applying resilient distributed systems engineering, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native automation principles. The platform architecture relies on a microservices ecosystem built with Java and Spring Boot, leveraging Apache Kafka for real-time asynchronous event streaming, RESTful API management for secure communication, and robust continuous deployment pipelines. The engineering team operates with strong autonomy, empowering engineers to drive architectural excellence across business, application, data, and infrastructure layers. The initiative focuses on developing end-to-end features, applying resilient design patterns to handle complex failure modes, automating build and deployment lifecycles, and ensuring full system observability and forward compatibility across all platform capabilities. Requirements Senior-level experience in enterprise software engineering with a focus on high-throughput, real-time banking and financial systems. Strong proficiency in core Java development, Spring Boot microservices, and modern resilient service design patterns. Hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures, including both orchestrated and choreographed patterns. Proven track record with Continuous Deployment (CD) practices, cloud-native operational paradigms, and automation as a core engineering principle. Solid background in designing and operating scalable RESTful APIs, with emphasis on versioning, monitoring, observability, and forward/backward compatibility. Practical experience in distributed, cloud-native environments, including handling complex failure modes and applying defensive coding techniques. Strong understanding of resilient software engineering, intentional architecture, emergent design, and test/deployment automation. Experience in banking, financial services, or highly regulated environments (e.g., Utilities) is a strong plus. Strong team player with a mindset for continuous learning, technical excellence, and mentoring fellow engineers. Job responsibilities Design, produce, test, and implement robust, scalable, and resilient distributed software across the entire development lifecycle. Contribute to building and maintaining a modern real-time banking platform, delivering business value aligned with product outcomes. Apply Agile methods to manage and develop software backlog items, ensuring long-lived and flexible application design. Build event-driven microservices using Spring Boot and Kafka, prioritizing high availability, low latency, and operational excellence. Implement continuous build, test, and deployment automation using executable patterns to streamline software delivery. Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Domain Architects, and key stakeholders to align technical architecture with business objectives. Formulate emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation, and rapid technical prototyping. Coach and mentor other engineers to foster technical capability and continuous engineering growth across the team. What we offer Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences – providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career. Our region supports a hybrid model that can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by business, customer and individual needs. You'll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), discounted gym memberships, and in office yoga sessions and massages. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day – so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social with trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more. We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and we actively welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for this vacancy. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments. If you require any adjustments for the application process, the interview, or the job itself, or if you need this information in an accessible format, please contact uki-careers@globallogic.com. About GlobalLogic GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.