Senior Java Developer
Chester – 2 days per week.
£70,000 – £90,000 annual bonus and 30 days holiday bh.
I’m hiring a Java Developer for one of my biggest clients in financial services. A bank but a tech-led organisation with a mission to build secure, scalable digital products that genuinely improve people’s lives. As they continue to invest in their engineering capability, they’re looking for talented Java Developers who thrive in collaborative environments, enjoy problem-solving, and want to make a meaningful impact through their work.
If you care about clean architecture, quality code, and building systems that matter, this could be your next step.

What You’ll Be Doing
As a Java Developer, you’ll play a key role in designing and building modern, cloud-native applications used at scale. You will:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services
• Build and deploy containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles
• Work closely with Product Owners, Architects and Quality Engineers
• Integrate with internal systems and third-party APIs
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape engineering strategy
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of L&D

What You’ll Need
We’re looking for curious, adaptable engineers who enjoy building high-quality software with experience in:

Backend Development

• Hands-on experience with Java and building scalable RESTful APIs
• Experience with Spring Boot; exposure to Node.js is a plus

DevOps & Cloud

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Harness
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms — GCP preferred, but AWS or Azure also welcome

Quality, Testing & Automation

• Experience with automated testing tools such as Jest, Cypress, or Pact
• Commitment to writing maintainable, well-tested, production-ready code

They have one of the best benefit packages on the market with a pension of 15%, amazing shared parental leave, flexible and hybrid working, work from anywhere all summer, annual bonus and 30 days holiday PLUS bank holidays!

One stage interviews happening asap. Also looking for mid-level engineers