Senior Java Quarkus Full Stack Engineer - 12 months - Halifax (2 days)- Inside IR35
We are looking for a Senior/Lead Full Stack Cloud Engineer to join a leading UK banking client on a 12-month hybrid contract based in Halifax. You will design, build and run secure, scalable, cloud-native applications using Java, Quarkus, React and Google Cloud Platform. The role covers the full development life cycle, from design to production support, and carries technical leadership, engineering standards and mentoring responsibility. 2 days per week on-site are required.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, build and test enterprise applications in Java and Quarkus, with React user interfaces
Develop secure, versioned REST APIs and independently deployable microservices
Build event-driven solutions on GCP Pub/Sub: retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, schema versioning
Deploy and run workloads on Cloud Run and GKE, using Docker and Kubernetes
Build CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, with automated testing and security scanning
Apply security by design: IAM, Secret Manager, secure coding and threat modelling
Own observability and production support: logging, metrics, tracing, incidents and root cause analysis
Provide technical leadership: set standards, review designs and code, and mentor engineers
What You Will Ideally Bring :
8+ years' software engineering experience, with distributed cloud-native systems
Advanced Java (17+), Quarkus, microservices and API development
React, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
GCP: Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, IAM, Secret Manager
Event-driven architecture and messaging patterns
Docker and Kubernetes
CI/CD, DevSecOps and Git-based development
TDD/BDD, with automated unit, integration and API testing
Observability, monitoring and production support
Cloud DevOps skills and application monitoring (desirable)
Proven technical leadership, mentoring and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Contract Details
Duration: 12 months initial
Rate: £375-410 per day
Determination: Inside IR35
Location: Halifax (Hybrid)
Senior Java Quarkus Full Stack Eng...
Senior Java Quarkus Full Stack Engineer - 12 months - Halifax (2 days)- Inside IR35 employer: Hamilton Barnes
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