Java Engineer

25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) pro rated, plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.

Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.

Health cash plan - via Simply Health for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc.

Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.

Life Assurance - 4 x annual salary – benefit funded by Oodle.

Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.

Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.

1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.

Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).

Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.

Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.

The Role

Java Engineer at Oodle Car Finance. You’ll be central to designing and building Oodle’s backend services, harnessing our data, system APIs, and third‑party integrations to deliver high‑performing, scalable solutions. Become part of our talented new team, where you’ll help disrupt the market and build software trusted to process millions of pounds in loan applications every single day.

What you’ll need:

• Excellent knowledge of Java is required.
• Experience with Kotlin is a plus but not essential.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or a similar framework.
• Good experience with microservices and API design.
• Experience with AWS (or other cloud providers), Docker and general devops practices.
• Good knowledge around architecting and developing solutions that span the full.
• A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Capable of “rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty.”

What you’ll do:

• Work on a variety of services to build and expose back‑end functionality for front‑end clients (mobile and web).
• Work closely with product managers and technical colleagues to provide API services.
• When required, support front‑end developers to integrate into back‑end services.
• Support new technical initiatives for the team to improve security, convenience, and reliability of our systems.
• Work with other teams and team leaders to build strong cross‑team collaboration.
• Prototype and explore new technologies that could benefit the team and Oodle as a whole.
• Support code standards and practices.

A genuine opportunity to disrupt the car finance industry and help shape the future of how customers experience lending. The chance to work with a cutting‑edge, cloud‑native tech stack — modern Java, Kubernetes, GitHub, and a wide range of AWS services. Collaboration with an exceptional team and the opportunity to work alongside talented, passionate people across Oodle.

Our Values:

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do.