Java Fullstack Developer - Farnborough
Posted 1 week ago by Square One Resources
£445 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Farnborough, UK
Summary: The role of Java Full-stack Developer involves joining a global finance client to modernize their application, with a focus on hands-on Kafka experience. The position requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills to guide a team and ensure high-quality deliverables. The contract is for six months, starting in November 2025, and is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyse, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and epics with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
- Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow
- Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
- Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
- Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
- Contributes to and potentially leads technology communities for the client
- This group follows the Agile methodology and works in 2 weeks sprints, each engineer is responsible for writing their own test scripts to achieve full automation
Key Skills:
- Java, Spring, Hibernate, Kafka
- Linux, VMware, Openshift, AWS
- CI/CD Pipelines via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus
- Testing of Database technologies (Postgres or similar)
- Full end to end quality tool-set Junit, Cucumber, Jmeter or similar performance testing tool
- Experience with caching technology
Salary (Rate): £445 per day
City: Farnborough
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Finance
Job Title: Java Full-stack Developer
Location: Farnborough
Salary/Rate: Up to £445 per day (Inside IR35)
Start Date: November 2025
Job Type: 6-month contract
Company Introduction
We are looking for an experienced Java Full stack Developer with strong hands-on Kafka experience in to join our global client in the finance industry.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
As a Full Stack Engineer on the Core Payments Backend team, you will be responsible for continuing the modernisation of our clients application.
- Analyse, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and epics with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
- Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow
- Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
- Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
- Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
- Contributes to and potentially leads technology communities for the client
- This group follows the Agile methodology and works in 2 weeks sprints, each engineer is responsible for writing their own test scripts to achieve full automation
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Java, Spring, Hibernate, Kafka
- Linux, VMware, Openshift, AWS
CI/CD Pipelines via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus - Testing of Database technologies (Postgres or similar)
- Full end to end quality tool-set Junit, Cucumber, Jmeter or similar performance testing tool
- Experience with caching technology
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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