Develop and enhance Java applications, translate complex requirements into technical specifications, and build scalable cloud-native solutions using Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, and microservices. The role includes implementing architecture patterns, writing comprehensive automated tests, working with relational and non-relational databases, supporting CI/CD, addressing information security and data privacy requirements, and mentoring junior developers.
Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building.
Job Role: Senior Java Developer
Duration: Fulltime & Contract - 12 months plus
Location: Glasgow, UK (Hybrid Model: 3 days per week in office)
Experience level: Minimum 4-12 yrs
Mandatory skills:
Java 8, Kafka, Collections, Multi-threading, problem solving as core skillset with knowledge of databases and design patterns, and some hands-on experience on UNIX. The candidate needs to be a self-starter, a confident personality with good communication skills who can work with minimum oversight and handholding.
Key Responibilities:
- Proactively contribute to enhancing our current applications that are written in Java 17.
- Engage with senior stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems/requirements into technical specifications.
- Comfortable with working autonomously in a high trust environment, but equally important to be able to build collaboratively with members of the team.
- Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
- Core understanding of streaming in Java and how to leverage it with AWS proprietary services.
- Extensive experience with Spring Boot framework.
- Implement various architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, cloud-native).
- Databases: Basic knowledge of SQL. Familiarity with non-relational databases.
- Communication Skills: Good oral and written English communication skills are required for this role. A successful candidate must be able to work alongside the users and the wider developer community in the firm and should also be able to communicate effectively with them.
Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor or Master’s degree.
- A deep understanding of AWS for cloud solutions.
- A strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong relational database skills using Postgres.
- Proficient in using Kafka as the message broker.
- Nurture, guide and mentor junior members of the team. Nice to Have:
- Experience with Java 21.
- Experience with Cloud Migration strategies.
- Experience with Kafka Streaming.
- Experience with Argo CD.
- Experience with Gitlab for CI/CD processes.
- Experience with Behaviour Driven Design writing automation test cases in Cucumber.
Information Security Responsibilities
- Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
- Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
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