Our ‘black belt’ specialists are leaders in their domains: digital champions, delivery-focused experts, top-tier security professionals, AI thought leaders, and engineering best practice advocates.
With a global footprint and deep local insight, Software at Scale delivers cutting-edge technology solutions that power mission-critical platforms. We solve complex engineering challenges at scale, driving quality, performance, and resilience through the strength of our people.
We are seeking an exceptional, highly proactive Senior Java Engineer who thrives in a high-trust, fully empowered environment. This is a purely hands-on execution role for a seasoned technologist who possesses deep internal knowledge of the modern Java ecosystem.
A critical focus of this mandate is building and optimising Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms designed to scale out horizontally.
We do not micromanage, nor do we hand out pre-packaged answers. You will step into an environment where you are expected to take complete technical ownership, architect high-throughput distributed systems, and navigate complex enterprise constraints.
You are not just a solo brilliant coder; you are a foundational team player. You will lead by example, establishing engineering baselines, and naturally providing the technical mentorship needed to lift the engineering capabilities of the squads around you.
- SaaS Architecture & Scale-Out: Architect, build, and optimise multi-tenant SaaS platforms, ensuring the architecture can dynamically and horizontally scale out to handle massive concurrency and data volume.
- API Engineering: Design and build high-performance, resilient RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices using modern Java frameworks.
- Technical Leadership & Team Uplift: Actively mentor and elevate mid-level engineers through collaborative code reviews, pair programming, and architectural whiteboard sessions.
- Java Ecosystem Development: Utilise the latest Java LTS releases and enterprise frameworks (specifically Spring Boot and Spring AI) alongside robust build tools (Maven or Gradle).
- DevOps & Testing: Develop and maintain frictionless CI/CD pipelines. Implement rigorous automated testing (JUnit, Mockito) and containerised workflows using Docker.
- Cloud-Native Deployment: Leverage AWS-native services to deploy reliable, horizontally scalable Java applications.
- AI Tooling Adoption: Champion the adoption of GenAI and agentic tools where they tangibly improve engineering productivity, code quality, or system capability.
- Observability: Apply observability best practices using modern monitoring, logging, and tracing tools to proactively manage system performance and identify bottlenecks.
- SaaS Scaling Expertise: Mandatory commercial experience designing and engineering Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms that are explicitly built to scale out horizontally under heavy load.
- Java Mastery: Deep, hands-on expertise in modern Java (e.g., Java 17 or 21). You understand the JVM internals, memory management, and concurrency.
- Frameworks & Build Tools: Extensive commercial experience with the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Data, and ideally Spring AI), alongside mastery of Maven or Gradle.
- Proactive Execution: A proven history of hunting down answers, researching architectural trade-offs independently, and proposing fully formed solutions rather than waiting for top-down direction.
- Cloud & CI/CD: Experience deploying and operating Java workloads on AWS, managing CI/CD pipelines, and working with Docker containers.
- Communication: Strong communication skills and a collaborative, execution-driven approach to solving enterprise problems.
- Meaningful, hands-on engineering work across complex, enterprise-grade SaaS platforms.
- Clear growth pathways from Senior to Staff and beyond.
- A low-ceremony, delivery-focused environment that values engineers who own outcomes.
- Competitive remuneration and benefits.
- The opportunity to work alongside highly experienced engineers on challenging, high-impact systems.
