Top Java Developer Jobs in Manchester

Build scalable Java backend systems using Spring, REST APIs, microservices, databases, messaging, Docker, and cloud platforms. Lead architecture and technical design, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, drive delivery, improve automation, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient software with measurable business value.

Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot. Write clean, tested code; work with relational and NoSQL databases; participate in code reviews; collaborate with senior engineers and product teams; and use Git-based CI/CD workflows to deliver features. The role includes mentorship, client collaboration, and occasional travel to client sites or company offices.

Develop and support mission-critical finance systems, including bank ledgers and integrations. Design reliable, maintainable services, collaborate with accountants, treasurers, and internal stakeholders, and contribute throughout the project lifecycle. Engineers will work primarily with Java in a cloud-native environment using PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, and CI/CD tooling. The role emphasizes transaction accuracy, financial process automation, system resilience, and solving complex technical problems.

Design, build, operate, and evaluate secure backend services in a Java-based, event-driven microservices platform for high-volume, low-latency usage-based pricing. The role requires independent technical judgment, code quality and security assessment, and effective use of AI development tools. Preferred experience includes acquisition-related team integration, complex business logic, high-throughput systems, and documenting shared system context for reliable AI-assisted development.

Develop and test cloud-based full-stack applications and prototypes using Java, Spring Boot, Python, TypeScript, Angular, and Azure. Build REST APIs, integrate microservices and event-driven systems, create accessible responsive interfaces, contribute to CI/CD and automated testing, and apply secure coding practices. Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and UX designers during discovery-phase projects. The role requires active SC clearance and occasional travel to London.

Join our Point of Sale squad as a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain systems that enhance customer finance experiences at checkout.

Lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of complex Java software solutions for government and national security customers. Build RESTful microservices, collaborate on frontend and backend systems, establish quality standards, conduct code reviews, explore new technologies, and mentor junior engineers. The role involves technical leadership, Agile delivery, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and working onsite at client locations three to four days per week after obtaining security clearance.

Develop and support an endpoint security product using Java, Node.js, TypeScript, and React. Investigate enterprise customer issues, debug complex systems, analyze logs, profile performance, and identify root causes. Collaborate with global Support, QA, Product, and Engineering teams, contribute to product roadmap decisions, and develop security solutions within an agile environment.

Develop and maintain Elasticsearch’s Inference API and plugin framework, integrating internal and external AI providers. Responsibilities include API and protocol design, streaming, asynchronous execution, rate limiting, configuration, billing integration, error handling, open-source contribution reviews, incident response, and comprehensive unit, REST, and rolling-upgrade testing. The role requires advanced Java expertise, concurrency and parallelism knowledge, API design skills, cross-functional collaboration, and autonomous work in a distributed team.

Hands-on senior fullstack developer building backend-led JVM services (Kotlin/modern Java) and responsive React/TypeScript frontends. Design APIs, event-driven workflows, tests, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and contribute across discovery, deployment, production support, and technical decisions while validating AI-assisted tools where helpful.

Build and maintain scalable backend systems using Java, Node.js, Spring, AWS, microservices, and REST APIs. Lead architecture and technical design, promote secure and reliable engineering practices, drive automated testing and CI/CD, mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, and evaluate AI and emerging technologies to improve software delivery.

Design, implement and evolve core components of a Java-based distributed runtime: cluster services, distributed data structures and execution engines. Work on partitioning, replication, coordination and recovery, write reliable low-latency production code, contribute to architecture, reviews and mentoring.

Develop core infrastructure and horizontally scalable APIs for Elasticsearch. Resolve complex performance and concurrency issues, improve cloud operations and observability, automate developer workflows, and support operational investigations. Lead cross-team projects, collaborate with open-source communities, and own technical designs and implementations from inception through delivery. Apply strong Java expertise, CI/CD practices, AI-assisted development, and distributed-team communication.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable Java and Spring backend systems, developing secure REST APIs, and contributing to Vue/TypeScript applications. The role includes architectural leadership, technical decision-making, automated testing, CI/CD, cloud development, mentoring engineers, client collaboration, and delivery across multiple initiatives. The engineer will also evaluate emerging technologies, promote automation, and help adopt responsible AI practices to improve engineering effectiveness.

Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale API gateways, edge routing, and high-throughput JVM backend services. Drive GitOps deployments (ArgoCD, Helm), improve observability, rate-limiting, and concurrency controls, integrate LLM-assisted workflows, and mentor global engineering teams.

Design, build, support, and architect scalable, highly available distributed applications across web, mobile, trading, content, and internal platforms. The role contributes to solution design, cloud delivery, CI/CD, testing, security, risk management, technical innovation, knowledge transfer, and full lifecycle change delivery using Java, AWS, microservices, event-driven architecture, and containers.

Design and maintain scalable Java backend systems, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed architectures. Lead technical and architectural decisions, promote testing and automation, mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, and evaluate emerging technologies including AI to improve engineering delivery.

Design, build, test, and maintain Java 17+ microservices for a banking modernization program. Develop REST APIs and messaging integrations, containerize and deploy services through CI/CD, integrate relational and NoSQL databases, and address performance, resilience, security, and observability. Participate in Agile delivery, solution design, code reviews, testing, and production releases while collaborating with architects, analysts, testers, and product owners.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain software solutions for public transportation, collaborate with teams, and mentor junior engineers.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and manage end-to-end data pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance while collaborating across Java and Python systems, including event schema design and AI tooling.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and deploy scalable applications, lead architecture discussions, ensure compliance, and improve engineering processes while collaborating across teams.