Java Software Engineer

Role: Java Developer

Location: Belfast, UK

Duration: 6 months, post which the probability to convert to FTE based on performance

Your Day-to-Day

As a Software Engineer, you will:

• Build and enhance backend services while contributing to the cloud‐modernization of our large‐scale, containerized and distributed email security platform.
• Develop clean, maintainable code primarily in Java, and Perl components where needed.
• Design and implement APIs and backend components, including data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Work with event‐driven, streaming, and asynchronous processing architectures.
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, SRE, and other engineering teams.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to support reliable builds, testing, and deployments.
• Participate in an on‐call rotation to help maintain system reliability.
• Take initiative, learn new technologies, and drive improvements across the platform.

What You Bring to the Team

• Strong experience in Java, with flexibility to work across additional technologies as needed.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and deployment workflows.
• Experience or strong interest in distributed or stateful systems in cloud‐native environments.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestrators.
• Familiarity with event‐driven messaging patterns or real‐time streaming data processing.
• Familiarity with caching or data stores (e.g., Redis).
• Focus on building maintainable, high‐performance, and scalable systems.
• Proactive, self‐directed, and strong problem‐solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross‐functional teams.