Requirements
Must have:
- Strong hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot, including REST API development and microservice-based architectures in production environments.
- Experience working across the full stack, with practical exposure to frontend development using Angular or server-side templating frameworks (e.g., Thymeleaf).
- Working experience with AWS cloud services, such as ECS, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, or ElastiCache, in deploying and running backend services.
- Solid understanding of API security concepts, including OAuth2, JWT, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and familiarity with caching technologies such as Redis.
- Working knowledge of event-driven architectures, including experience consuming or producing messages using Kafka and/or Amazon SQS.
- Experience working in regulated, risk-sensitive, or high-availability systems, with an emphasis on reliability, auditability, and scalability.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work within an international team.
- Self-motivated individual and creative thinker who will take ownership of tasks assigned.
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy, demanding, and team-oriented environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions and different roles.
- Good customer service skills. Ability to deal with difficult situations/individuals gracefully.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and scale Spring Boot microservices supporting MRV/MRD workflows.
- Build secure, well-designed REST APIs integrated with frontend and downstream systems.
- Contribute to frontend development using Angular and/or server-side templating (Thymeleaf).
- Work with event-driven and messaging systems to support real-time risk processing.
- Develop and optimize data access using relational databases and caching layers.
- Collaborate across product, cloud, and risk teams to support multi-region scaling.
- Support production readiness, performance tuning, and operational stability.
Company:
We are a dynamic team located in Basildon, UK, and we are looking for Full-Stack Engineers to help scale our existing merchant risk and compliance platform for multi-regional deployment. This 6–12-month contract position focuses on developing and enhancing our Java/Spring Boot microservices while integrating with AWS cloud services.
We offer a collaborative environment where you will work closely with platform, data, and risk engineering teams, supporting a high-throughput, compliance-sensitive platform.