Java Developer

Location: Manchester, Hybrid

Contract: 6 months

Rate: £522 per day

IR35: Inside IR35

Working pattern: Initially 1-2 days per week in the Manchester office, with the potential to move to fully remote working after the first few months.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Java Developer to join a 6-month contract supporting an AWS migration programme.

The primary focus of the project will be migrating services from a single AWS account to a multi-account AWS environment. This is a hands-on development role, so we are looking for someone with strong Java coding skills who is comfortable writing, reviewing, testing and monitoring production-quality code.

Key Skills & Experience

Strong commercial Java development experience

Strong hands-on coding ability

Experience with Spring Boot

Good knowledge of AWS services and cloud environments

Experience writing and maintaining unit tests

Experience reviewing code and working within established development standards

Experience monitoring applications and investigating logs

Experience working with Grafana dashboards

Comfortable troubleshooting application and service issues

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

Designing and writing high-quality Java code

Reviewing code produced by other developers

Developing and maintaining unit tests

Monitoring services and application performance

Working with Grafana dashboards

Reviewing logs and investigating issues

Supporting the migration of services from a single AWS account to a multi-account AWS structure

Working collaboratively with the wider engineering team throughout the migration