Lead Java Developer - £450 Inside - 12 Months - Remote

Job Title: Lead Java Developer
Rate: £450 (Inside IR35)
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Remote
Clearance: BPSS

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and delivery of secure, scalable and high-quality software solutions.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineers, promoting continuous improvement and best practice.

• Design and evolve robust architectures, including microservices, REST APIs and event-driven systems.

• Translate complex business and user requirements into maintainable, performant technical solutions.

• Drive engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews and cloud-native development.

• Diagnose and resolve complex architectural, performance and technical-debt issues.

• Collaborate with Product, Delivery, UX, Architecture and DevOps teams in agile, multidisciplinary environments.

• Ensure systems meet security, resilience, accessibility, performance and government standards.

• Contribute to technical strategy, architecture decisions and engineering standards across teams.

• Take ownership of technical delivery and work effectively under broad direction.

Skills & Experience

• Expert-level software engineering experience, particularly with Java and modern development practices.

• Strong experience with microservices, RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture.

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding and operational resilience.

• Proven experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.

• Experience working in agile, multidisciplinary teams to deliver user-centred digital services.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.