Backend Software Engineer

Back End Software Developer

We are looking for experienced backend software engineering contractors to join active and upcoming project delivery teams across multiple domains. Projects cover a wide variety of technologies, commonly drawing on modern frameworks and platforms. Project teams employ agile practices such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe to manage their work.

Projects typically make extensive use of automated testing and Dev Ops practices, with customers increasingly deploying production code into containerised public and private cloud systems.

• Design, develop and engineer software and products for customers across secure environments.
• Produce creative and innovative solutions to customer problems.
• Integrate and develop against open source components and frameworks.
• Understand and apply new and emerging technologies.

You will use a range of technologies – some you may be familiar with already, while others you will learn to support specific projects. These technologies include:

• Java Enterprise (Spring Boot) and supporting backend frameworks.
• Python.
• SQL and No
  
  SQL database systems.
• Linux-based operating systems – Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL, Android, etc.
• Message brokering, serialisation and queuing systems.
• Microservices, containers and hosts.
• Infrastructure as Code – Vagrant, Ansible, Terraform, Helm.
• AWS and Azure Cloud.
• Git and version control systems.
• Open Shift / Kubernetes.

Gloucester – minimum 3 days per week on customer site.

Must already hold UKIC DV clearance (preferably West).

Up to £850 per day to the agency (not the individual).

Inside IR35.

Through to 31/03/2026 with high probability of extension.