Senior Full Stack Developer
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Summary
Senior full-stack contractor (SFIA 5) for a UK central government digital service, building Java 11/Spring Boot services behind a React/Node front end with event-driven messaging (Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ), Kong API gateway, CI pipelines and AWS delivery. Remote with occasional travel to London, Manchester or Newcastle; six-month contract inside IR35.
A UK central government digital service is hiring two senior full stack developers, SFIA 5, remote with occasional travel.
The work spans both halves properly. Java 11 services behind a React and Node front end, built to the GOV.UK pattern, with event-driven messaging between them.
What you will do
- Build and maintain Java 11 services with Spring Boot and Maven
- Work in templating frameworks such as Nunjucks and Freemarker
- Design and deliver microservices and event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ
- Manage and expose APIs through an API gateway, Kong
- Build and maintain CI pipelines in Git, GitLab CI, Jenkins and SonarQube
- Deliver on AWS
What you need
- Java 11 with Spring Boot and Maven
- Microservices and event-driven architecture, with Kafka, ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ
- API gateway experience, ideally Kong
- Templating in Nunjucks or Freemarker
- CI tooling — Git, GitLab CI, Jenkins, SonarQube
- AWS
- UK central government delivery on an engagement of six months or longer
The package
- Inside IR35
- Six months initially
- Remote, with occasional travel to London, Manchester or Newcastle