Senior Software Developer

Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh)

12 months duration

Day rate offered £450 outside ir35

A highly skilled Senior Developer is required to support the ongoing delivery and modernisation of critical digital services within a major national registration domain. You will join an established cross-functional engineering team working to enhance, replace and support core systems as part of a transition from legacy platforms to a modern hybrid-cloud environment.

What you’ll do

Develop and support Spring Boot web applications and REST APIs deployed in OpenShift

Contribute to the transition from legacy systems into a cloud-first architecture

Support and enhance domain-specific systems, including case management, workflow and register services

Lead technical delivery for web applications that enable end-to-end processing of key registration activities

Maintain and upgrade Java and Spring Boot services (Java 21 upgrades, dependency management, monitoring and alerting)

Investigate and support replacement of bulk processing services

Troubleshoot across AWS-based components, ETL pipelines, relational and NoSQL databases

Contribute to disaster recovery assurance activities

Apply collaborative engineering practices, including pairing, mobbing, TDD and contract testing

Participate in Agile ceremonies and continuous improvement activities

Essential skills & experience

Java 11/17, Spring Boot microservices, Spring Security, OAuth2

React/Next.js and modern JavaScript practices

OpenShift, AWS CDK, AWS CI/CD pipelines

RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch

Jenkins, Docker, modern DevOps and IaC practices

Event-based and service-oriented architecture

TDD, pair programming, consumer-driven contract testing

Grafana, Kibana, cloud monitoring and telemetry

MongoDB and PostgreSQL

Experience replacing or modernising legacy systems

If this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today!

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

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