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Senior Software Engineer
£78,000 - 82,000
Matchtech Group Plc
George Street 19, Luton
£78,000 - 82,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong commercial experience building APIs using Java and Spring Boot in a production environment.
- Deep knowledge of RESTful API design, including best practices for resource modeling, pagination, and error handling.
- Proven experience with API versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications and API documentation tooling.
- Solid understanding of API security, including OAuth2, API keys, scopes, JWT, and rate limiting.
- Strong testing experience, including contract testing, unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
Desirable:
- Experience with API gateway/orchestration platforms, such as TIBCO, Apigee, or Azure API Management.
- Experience with asynchronous patterns, such as event-driven architecture or messaging queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deployment in Kubernetes environments.
- Exposure to GraphQL and other modern API approaches.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Strategic Thinking: Aligns API design and platform tooling with organizational goals and future scalability.
- Technical Leadership: Mentors engineers, shares best practices, and supports consistent implementation across teams.
- Collaboration: Works across squads, architecture, and platform areas to unify integration approaches.
- Communication: Explains complex API design choices clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Accountability: Takes ownership of engineering quality, platform reliability, and strategic delivery.
- Continuous Improvement: Identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, or automate aspects of API delivery.
- Resilience & Knowledge Sharing: Encourages documentation, reusable assets, and team resilience through shared learning.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain our API strategy, which includes standards for design, documentation, versioning, security, and lifecycle management.
- Establish and evolve reusable API design patterns, working closely with architects and platform teams.
- Guide platform adoption and integration of API gateway/orchestration tools (e.g., TIBCO, Apigee, Azure API Management).
- Support consistent enforcement of API governance policies, authentication mechanisms, and API analytics.
- Contribute to the long-term roadmap for API enablement, developer tooling, and discoverability.
- Design and build Spring Boot-based APIs that are scalable, testable, and well-structured.
- Lead or support squads in delivering high-impact integration solutions across services and platforms.
- Collaborate on reusable API assets such as SDKs, templates, shared schemas, and common middleware.
- Implement robust error handling, logging, and observability across services and endpoints.
- Promote automation of API tests, documentation, contract validation, and pipeline integration.
- Act as a subject matter expert for APIs across squads and tribes, supporting design reviews, peer mentoring, and training.
- Participate in planning, backlog refinement, and sprint activities as a senior technical voice.
- Collaborate with architecture, security, and governance teams to align APIs with our organization’s principles.
- Contribute to Chapter and Guild forums, raising the bar for API engineering across the organization.
- Lead efforts to reduce technical debt, improve platform resilience, and accelerate onboarding for new API consumers.
Description
We are a prominent player in the insurtech sector, and we are seeking a passionate and skilled Java Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. This permanent role will involve working closely with engineering squads, architects, and platform teams to ensure that our APIs are well-designed, discoverable, versioned, and aligned with modern integration patterns. The ideal candidate will also help guide the adoption of API tooling and platforms such as TIBCO, Apigee, or Azure API Management, enhancing the developer experience both internally and externally. As part of our organization, you will have the opportunity to grow your career within a leading insurtech company, access continuous professional development and training, and work within a supportive and collaborative team environment. We offer a comprehensive employee benefits package. If you are a Java Software Engineer looking for a dynamic role within the insurtech industry, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our innovative team!
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