Back end Engineer

2) Back-End Engineer (Java-first; Python-friendly) - banking

Build reliable, secure, and observable back-end services powering customer/colleague experiences and AI features.

6 month contract

uk wide

hybrid

Core skills

• Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data/JPA (Hibernate), PostgreSQL.
• Eventing: Kafka; RESTful APIs (GraphQL a plus).
• Security: OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, secure coding.
• CI/CD and containerisation: Docker; deploy to AWS and/or PCF on-prem.

Responsibilities

• Own services end-to-end: design, implement, test, deploy, operate.
• Data modelling, migrations, performance tuning, resilient integrations.
• Observability (metrics/logs/traces), SLOs.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with the DWS parent and NatWest platform standards is a strong plus.
• Experience working within NatWest engineering standards and governance.
• Ability to deliver microservices in Python when needed (FastAPI/Django).
• Terraform/IaC, EKS, service meshes, Postgres performance, Kafka.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.