Java Backend Engineer

Job Title: Java Backend Engineer

Location: London

Duration of the Assignment: 1 Year

Experience required: 10+

Department/Practice: Commercial banking

Start Date: 17/07/2026

Day rate: Upto £550 per day - DoE (Inside IR35)

Job Purpose and primary objectives:

Our client, TCS who are working with a leading UK-based financial services group who provide a wide range of banking and financial services are looking for a proven and experienced Java Backend Engineer. There is a significant migration and consolidation effort of legacy systems into microservices with the development team taking the lead on the design, build, deployment and operation of the service they have created.

Person Specification: The successful candidate must be comfortable speaking up and challenging solutions and designs as part of sprint planning, contribute to the overall team cohesion through engaging with the wider team and be clear and transparent with the client.

Key responsibilities:

* Ensure the Features delivered are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards according to client’s expectation (Build, unit test and eploy)

* At this role, we are looking to blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and show great passion for coaching and developing people in a ‘player-coach’ role

* Work hands-on alongside engineering colleagues to deliver the highest quality customer driver software

* Work in an Agile fast paced environment and work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well defined, complex and often non-routine

Key Skills/Knowledge:

* Backend developer with hands on development experience working with Spring, Spring Boot, rest services, Java 8+, Kafka, Building Microservice

* Strong knowledge of BDD/TDD and Junit

* Strong Knowledge on the entire software development cycle

* Experience of working with DevOps tools and approaches

* Experience with agile development methodologies and tooling etc.

* Experience of using software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery

* Experience in GCP

* Experiences and understanding of Microservices

* Experience and understanding of API gateways

Due to a high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually regarding the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 5 days then the application should be deemed unsuccessful
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed