Junior Software Engineer

Hutchison Ports – Port of Felixstowe is the UK’s largest deep water container port and a major gateway for global trade. As our Junior Software Engineer, you will support the port’s digital backbone by designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software that keeps essential operations running smoothly.

This is a role with purpose, from building solutions that thousands rely on daily, ensuring reliability, safety, and operational excellence, you’ll help define how our systems should work, shape technical direction, and deliver clean, robust, high‑performing code.

With your software engineering experience across the full lifecycle, you’ll elevate standards and make a measurable impact from day one.

• Competitive pension: 8% employer contribution (min 4% employee)
• Life Assurance: 14× annual salary for pension scheme members (4× for non-members)
• Annual profit share bonus and performance related bonus
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): confidential counselling, stress & anxiety support, financial wellbeing guidance, plus access to our Wellbeing Hub
• On site Occupational Health Team and wellbeing support

• Paid leave, enhanced sick pay terms, and family friendly policies
• Volunteering days supporting our local community
• Perkbox retail discounts, wellbeing content and savings across hundreds of brands

• Access to development pathways, accredited training, and career progression opportunities across our port network

• Design, build, test and review applications based on cloud-native principles and deployable to cloud platforms.
• Refactor, review, and maintain existing enterprise application code bases ensuring scalability, performance and security are taken into consideration, building new features to support the growth of global business.
• Participate & effectively contribute to scrum ceremonies with the product owner and scrum team.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, QAs, designers, and partners to contribute to solution design and problem solving.
• Research and learn new methodologies & technologies and bring knowledge to the team.
• Perform application releases and systems upgrade.
• Provide user support on application systems.
• Provide occasional standby support service for critical situations.

• University Degree holder in Computer Science, Information Engineering or related discipline.
• Solid experience in Java(J2EE), Spring Boot, HTML5 is essential.
• Good understanding in one or more of the following database systems:
  Oracle, Mongo
  
  DB, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server.
• Exposure to Linux is an advantage.
• Exposure to network troubleshooting is an advantage.
• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies, such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes and Helm, is an advantage.
• Experience in using Web Logic and/or Oracle RAC is an advantage.
• A team player with good analytical, problem solving and communication skills, and eagerness to learn.

• Basic salary:
  Up to £49,204
• Hours:
  
  37.5hrs per week – Monday to Friday

Bring your commitment, teamwork and drive and we’ll give you a career, not just a job.