Lead Java Developer - 12 Month FTC

Who We Are:

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Lead Java Developer to join our engineering team and play a key role in the design, development and operation of cloud-native services within our clients Accounts platform.

You will provide technical leadership across the full software delivery lifecycle, from solution design and development through to deployment, monitoring and production support. You will work closely with other engineers, architects and stakeholders to build secure, scalable and resilient services using modern Java and cloud technologies.

This is an opportunity to make a significant technical contribution while helping to shape engineering standards, development practices and the future direction of the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of robust, scalable Java services and APIs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to other developers, supporting best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Design and develop cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Contribute to architectural and technical decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and fit for purpose.
• Deploy, operate and support applications across AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Drive high standards across software engineering, including code quality, testing, automation, security and resilience.
• Champion effective CI/CD practices and continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Implement and promote effective monitoring, logging and observability practices.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, taking ownership through to resolution and ensuring lessons are incorporated into future development.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to engineering standards, technical documentation and development processes.

Essential Experience

• We are particularly interested in candidates with strong experience in:
• Java, with substantial commercial development experience.
• Spring Boot and development of RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Designing and developing microservices and event-driven solutions.
• Kubernetes and containerised application environments.
• AWS cloud services and cloud-native application development.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps practices.
• Monitoring and observability tools, such as Grafana.
• Automated testing and engineering quality practices.

Why join AND Digital?

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
• Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• 13 days per year for innovation or upskilling
• 2 days per year for volunteering
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
• PLUS many more

Equal Opportunities Statement

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.