11 of 11 Lead Java Engineer Jobs in the UK

Lead Software Engineer – Java (Digital Consultancy) – London – Hybrid – up to £110K We’re working with a leading UK digital consultancy, rapidly growing across the UK with a headcount of 500+. They combine technical excellence with a culture that genuinely puts people first, delivering innovative solutions across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and more. This is a high-impact … leadership role for a Lead Java engineer ready to shape technology strategy, manage engineering teams, and deliver complex, mission-critical systems for household-name clients. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer, you will: • Take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance Java-based systems. • Lead technical direction across … innovation and continuous improvement in development processes, cloud adoption, and CI/CD pipelines. • Act as a trusted technical advisor, balancing architectural vision with delivery realities. Tech Stack • Backend: Java, RESTful APIs • Cloud & Deployment: AWS, CI/CD pipelines • Other: Third-party API integrations About You • Extensive experience in Java backend development and API architecture. • Proven track record More ❯

Lead Software Engineer – Java (Digital Consultancy) – London – Hybrid – up to £110K We're working with a leading UK digital consultancy, rapidly growing across the UK with a headcount of 500+. They combine technical excellence with a culture that genuinely puts people first, delivering innovative solutions across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and more. This is a high-impact … leadership role for a Lead Java engineer ready to shape technology strategy, manage engineering teams, and deliver complex, mission-critical systems for household-name clients. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer, you will: • Take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance Java-based systems. • Lead technical direction across … innovation and continuous improvement in development processes, cloud adoption, and CI/CD pipelines. • Act as a trusted technical advisor, balancing architectural vision with delivery realities. Tech Stack • Backend: Java, RESTful APIs • Cloud & Deployment: AWS, CI/CD pipelines • Other: Third-party API integrations About You • Extensive experience in Java backend development and API architecture. • Proven track record More ❯

Lead Software Engineer – Java (Digital Consultancy) – Edinburgh – Hybrid – up to £110K We're working with a leading UK digital consultancy, rapidly growing across the UK with a headcount of 500+. They combine technical excellence with a culture that genuinely puts people first, delivering innovative solutions across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and more. This is a high-impact … leadership role for a Lead Java engineer ready to shape technology strategy, manage engineering teams, and deliver complex, mission-critical systems for household-name clients. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer, you will: • Take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance Java-based systems. • Lead technical direction across … product managers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. • Drive innovation and continuous improvement in development processes, cloud adoption, and CI/CD pipelines. Tech Stack • Backend: Java, RESTful APIs • Cloud & Deployment: AWS, CI/CD pipelines • Other: Third-party API integrations About You • Extensive experience in Java backend development and API architecture. • Proven track record More ❯

Lead Software Engineer – Java (Digital Consultancy) – Leeds – Hybrid – up to £110K We're working with a leading UK digital consultancy, rapidly growing across the UK with a headcount of 500+. They combine technical excellence with a culture that genuinely puts people first, delivering innovative solutions across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and more. This is a high-impact … leadership role for a Lead Java engineer ready to shape technology strategy, manage engineering teams, and deliver complex, mission-critical systems for household-name clients. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer, you will: • Take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance Java-based systems. • Lead technical direction across … innovation and continuous improvement in development processes, cloud adoption, and CI/CD pipelines. • Act as a trusted technical advisor, balancing architectural vision with delivery realities. Tech Stack • Backend: Java, RESTful APIs • Cloud & Deployment: AWS, CI/CD pipelines • Other: Third-party API integrations About You • Extensive experience in Java backend development and API architecture. • Proven track record More ❯

Lead Java Software Engineer Edinburgh £110K We're working with a leading UK digital consultancy, rapidly growing across the UK with a headcount of 500+. They combine technical excellence with a culture that genuinely puts people first, delivering innovative solutions across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and more. This is a high-impact leadership role for a Lead Java engineer ready to shape technology strategy, manage engineering teams, and deliver complex, mission-critical systems for household-name clients. The Role Take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance Java-based systems. Lead technical direction across multiple projects, ensuring best-in-class coding standards, testing, and performance. Collaborate directly with … product managers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. Drive innovation and continuous improvement in development processes, cloud adoption, and CI/CD pipelines. Tech Stack Backend: Java, RESTful APIs Cloud & Deployment: AWS, CI/CD pipelines Other: Third-party API integrations About You Extensive experience in Java backend development and API architecture. Proven track record More ❯

Lead Software Engineer - Java (Digital Consultancy) - Leeds - Hybrid - up to £110K We're working with a leading UK digital consultancy, rapidly growing across the UK with a headcount of 500+. They combine technical excellence with a culture that genuinely puts people first, delivering innovative solutions across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and more. This is a high-impact … leadership role for a Lead Java engineer ready to shape technology strategy, manage engineering teams, and deliver complex, mission-critical systems for household-name clients. The Role Take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance Java-based systems. Lead technical direction across multiple projects, ensuring best-in-class coding standards, testing … innovation and continuous improvement in development processes, cloud adoption, and CI/CD pipelines. Act as a trusted technical advisor, balancing architectural vision with delivery realities. Tech Stack Backend: Java, RESTful APIs Cloud & Deployment: AWS, CI/CD pipelines Other: Third-party API integrations About You Extensive experience in Java backend development and API architecture. Proven track record More ❯

Our client, a pioneering company in the IT sector, is currently seeking a Lead Java Engineer to join their team in London. It is our client's vision to connect the insurance community through market-leading technology. Their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is central to their culture, fostering a positive, collaborative working environment where every … employee can thrive. Key Responsibilities: Playing a lead role in designing, planning, and delivering features and improvements to production Collaborating closely with Architects, Principal Software Engineers, and Technical Leads to evaluate technical trade-offs, shape system architecture, and drive strategic design decisions Documenting architecture decisions and participating in the tribe's architectural governance, providing advice and feedback on proposed … production, responding to change failures, and fixing issues Delivering new customer requirements quickly, reliably, and efficiently Contributing to a continually improving Agile software development framework Job Requirements: Experience in Java Ability to design and develop solutions that enable market leadership whilst improving the current technical estate Skill in mentoring and coaching software engineers Experience working as part of a More ❯

Lead Full Stack Engineer Industrial AI Platform Location: Reading WFH: Minimum 3 days in the office a week (hybrid and flexible working) Java Angular AWS £70,000 - £100,000 We are a high-growth scale-up building a cloud SaaS platform that enables industrial and energy clients to manage fleets of autonomous systems and turn vast inspection … solution. Already working with some of the world s leading industrial organisations, this platform is central to our long-term SaaS growth strategy. The Opportunity We re hiring a Lead Engineer to take ownership of the architecture, development, and delivery of our platform. You ll be both hands-on and strategic: shaping the technology roadmap, delivering core features … the opportunity to hire and mentor engineers as we scale What You ll Do Own the end-to-end design and architecture of a SaaS platform Deliver across backend (Java) and frontend (Angular) systems Build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS) Implement APIs, authentication (SSO/LDAP), and secure data pipelines Develop dashboards and data visualisations to transform complex datasets More ❯

Lead Full Stack Engineer – Industrial AI Platform Location: Reading WFH: Minimum 3 days in the office a week (hybrid and flexible working) Java | Angular | AWS £70,000 - £100,000 We are a high-growth scale-up building a cloud SaaS platform that enables industrial and energy clients to manage fleets of autonomous systems and turn vast inspection … solution. Already working with some of the world’s leading industrial organisations, this platform is central to our long-term SaaS growth strategy. The Opportunity We’re hiring a Lead Engineer to take ownership of the architecture, development, and delivery of our platform. You’ll be both hands-on and strategic: shaping the technology roadmap, delivering core features … the opportunity to hire and mentor engineers as we scale What You’ll Do Own the end-to-end design and architecture of a SaaS platform Deliver across backend (Java) and frontend (Angular) systems Build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS) Implement APIs, authentication (SSO/LDAP), and secure data pipelines Develop dashboards and data visualisations to transform complex datasets More ❯

A leading global investment bank is seeking a Java Developer/eTrading Strategist to join its London Rates eTrading team . This front-office role focuses on designing, building, and optimising low-latency Java trading systems that power the bank's global Rates business. The Role You will engineer high-performance Java components for algorithmic execution … with traders, quants, and technologists, you'll deliver production-ready eTrading solutions with a focus on latency, scalability, and resilience . Key Responsibilities Design and implement low-latency, multithreaded Java applications for Rates eTrading. Develop and optimise execution algorithms, smart order routers, and pricing engines . Profile and tune Java applications for GC optimisation, lock contention, and throughput … . Implement real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks . Partner with quants to integrate pricing models into Java-based trading systems . Conduct rigorous code reviews, testing, and benchmarking . Candidate Profile Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics , or related field. 10+ years' experience in Java development within low-latency trading systems . Deep knowledge of Java More ❯

complete software system. Requires completion of an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar discipline, and a minimum of 10 years of experience including software development experience. Key Responsibilities: Lead the team to deliver new products, features and fixes iteratively using an Agile Scrum approach working with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Developers and QAs Working with the architects … around the world Qualifications & Experience Essential Attributes: 10+ years of experience in Software development of complex applications. Excellent understanding of design principles and considerations, best practice 10+ years of Java and C++ development experience History of applying best practices, code reviews and quality checks Familiarity with build pipeline tools and technologies such as Gitlab Must be self-motivated but … and problem-solving skills Self-Starter; willing to learn new technologies, ability to learn fast Team player: willing to coach junior team members and cooperate on problem solving Team Lead experience working with Agile Delivery teams Interest in leadership or leading a small team of software developers and quality assurance engineers Desirable Attributes: Knowledge of Eclipse RCP and Eclipse More ❯