Platform​/Java Engineer - Developer

Role

Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

London / Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

Platform Engineering Manager

This role represents a unique opportunity for a mid-level engineer with a strong Java foundation to expand their expertise into Platform Engineering and join a team prioritising automation, observability, and delivering value in iterations, while directly shaping developer productivity through self-service tooling and standardised workflows. The initial focus of the role is to maintain existing Java services, owned by the Developer Experience team.

The team is currently working on migrating services to the Cloud. The role will then shift to enhance our Internal Developer Platform solution, to abstract the infrastructure complexities for developers, enabling developers to build and deliver microservices efficiently. Success in this role requires balancing hands‑on Java service maintenance with platform architecture, CI/CD pipeline design, and developer enablement.

• Maintaining Java services owned by the Developer Experience team.
• Working with developers, providing support.
• Delivering training workshops to our internal customers when necessary, and improving documentation.
• Working on platform tasks and learning more about the technologies we use.
• Expanding self‑service capabilities in the internal platform to cover common use cases.

• Platform Development: Enhance IDP Platform, create Git Lab CI templates, standardise configuration and monitoring.
• Developer Support: Participate in the rota to provide support to developers for platform‑related issues in areas that Developer Experience owns. Conduct a weekly review and brainstorm ways of reducing the number of requests through automation and building auditable self‑service tooling, documentation and training.
• Operational Excellence: Participate in the out‑of‑hours on‑call rota (1 week/month – competitive additional compensation offered).

• Experience with modern Java – write clean, efficient, and well‑documented code.
• Experience with test frameworks – JUnit and Mockito are essential.
• Debugging skills – identify and resolve issues in complex systems.
• Gradle Fundamentals – write and maintain complex Gradle build files.
• Dependency Management – understand different dependency configurations and resolve conflicts.
• Multi‑Project Builds – set up and manage multi‑project builds in Gradle.
• Performance Optimization – understanding of Gradle build speed optimisations and efficiency.
• Spring Boot – knowledge for the purpose of library upgrades.
• Custom Gradle plugin – create custom Gradle tasks to automate build processes, retrieve properties, code generation, or other development tasks.
• Security – experience working within an SDLC framework (ISO 27002:2022), understanding of SALSA and SBOMs.

• Always pushes for continuous improvement and has strong attention to detail.
• Positive outlook, good people and communication skills.
• Has an automation mindset.

• Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh
• Confluent Cloud
• Git Lab
• Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams
• Elastic APM, Kibana

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