* Delivery pipeline improvements (CI/CD, build reliability, deployment automation)

* Improving automated test coverage and quality across services, with a target of achieving and maintaining high coverage levels where appropriate

* Monitoring, telemetry, and observability for integrations with third-party services

* Fallback and resiliency mechanisms (circuit breakers, retries, failover)

* Making microservices more robust and self-healing

* Refactoring legacy services to improve maintainability, testability, performance and operational resilience

Work Experience

 Required Skills

* 4+ years of commercial back-end development experience

* Strong hands-on experience with Java 8+, with Java 17 exposure preferred

* Deep expertise with Spring Boot, microservices, and event-driven distributed architectures

* Solid experience designing and building RESTful APIs

* Working knowledge of Docker and container-based deployment

* Practical experience with AWS, including Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, and KMS

* Hands-on experience with MySQL — schema design, query tuning, and performance optimisation

* Experience with observability tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing (e.g. Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)

* Strong grounding in unit testing with JUnit and Mockito, with a quality-first mindset

* Familiarity with resiliency patterns (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, bulkheads)

* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Desirable

* Kubernetes / container orchestration

* Prior experience focused on platform observability

* Experience working across distributed teams and time zones

* Experience with API and event contract testing, and establishing automated compatibility guarantees between microservices and their consumers