Senior Java Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer – FinTech – Greenfield product 🚀

💰Up to £100,000

🏡Hybrid working – Manchester based

💻Java, Spring, Kafka

We’re partnered with a leading FinTech based in Manchester who are now looking for a Senior Backend Engineer as they grow a new team to help scale new products and projects.

This role will be supporting high-performing engineering teams whilst owning the end-to-end delivery of projects and you’ll be involved across the requirements and architecture through to deployment, observability and long-term reliability. This position playa a key role in driving engineering excellence, modernising architecture, and ensuring the integration of secure, resilient practices across systems.

You will lead high-performing engineering teams while owning the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical software. This includes everything from requirements and architecture through to deployment, observability, and long-term reliability. You’ll also play a key role in driving engineering excellence, modernising architecture, and embedding secure, resilient practices across systems.

What will you be doing:

• Be involved in leading, mentoring and developing inclusive, high-performing engineering teams
• Own the full software delivery lifecycle across design, build, test, deploy and operate
• Drive best practices across coding standards, testing, automation and DevOps
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including product, design and operations to deliver scalable solutions
• Contribute to architecture strategy, modernisaton and integration initiatives

What are they looking for:

• Experience in mentoring and leading engineering teams building distributed systems and microservices
• Java, Spring and scalable system architecture experience with exposure to AI development and integration
• Good experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps practices

This is a great opportunity to join a scaling business who are working on a number of exciting projects and if you’d like to hear more about this opportunity, reach out to me on charlotte@burnssheehan.co.uk