Senior Java Developer Spring Boot TDD
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Summary
A senior hands-on lead building real-time sports betting backend services with Java and Spring Boot, guiding a small team (~80/20 coding vs leadership), championing TDD and CS fundamentals, and driving delivery with Product Owners.
Overview
As a Senior Java Developer, you will lead a small, high-performing backend team while delivering hands-on architecture and coding. You’ll work in a real-time sports betting domain, collaborating closely with Product Owners to ensure timely, high-quality delivery. The role balances technical leadership with mentoring, driving engineering excellence and continuous improvement. This opportunity combines hands-on coding with strategic influence in a global gaming software environment.
Pay / Benefits- Salary up to 78k
- Personalised training budget
- Pension
- Healthcare including dental and optical
- Wellness experiences
- gym subsidy, cycle to work scheme, volunteer days
- Guide and mentor a small development team, balancing architecture work with coding and leadership (approximately 80/20)
- Oversee full delivery lifecycle with Product Owner to deliver backlog items to a high standard
- Promote engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team and organization
- Develop backend solutions using Java and Spring Boot in a real-time betting context
- Champion Test Driven Development (TDD) and robust CS fundamentals
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment
- Strong Java and Spring Boot development experience
- Technical leadership, mentoring and coaching experience
- Proficient in Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Solid CS fundamentals (OOP, multithreading, design patterns, data structures)
- Collaborative, pragmatic communicator with stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable with agentic AI coding
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- strong communication
- Java
- Spring Boot
- TDD