Java Engineer

Senior Java Engineer
Spring Boot / PostgreSQL / AWS | Remote, UK | £60,000 | HealthTech
About The Company
Arc IT Recruitment is supporting an established UK-based HealthTech organisation in its search for a Senior Java Engineer. The company develops and operates a live software-as-a-service platform in a sector where reliable, secure technology can make a meaningful difference. Its product is used in a clinical context, so thoughtful engineering, dependable delivery and close collaboration with colleagues across the business are important.
The organisation is continuing to develop its platform and is looking for an experienced engineer to contribute to new product work while improving existing capabilities. This is an opportunity to join a product-focused environment that values practical solutions, high-quality code and steady, responsible progress over unnecessary redesign.
About The Role
As Senior Java Engineer, you will take a hands-on role in designing, building, testing and delivering features across the application. Senior developers remain closely involved in implementation, owning work end to end: understanding requirements, shaping the technical approach, modelling data, building APIs and business logic, and helping ensure changes are safely released to production.
You will work with product, design and clinical colleagues to translate user and business needs into useful software. Alongside feature development, you will investigate production issues, contribute to code reviews and support junior developers. The position is remote within the UK and offers a salary of £60,000.
Qualifications
At least five years of commercial Java development experience, including recent work building application features and business logic for a product.
Strong knowledge of core Java, including object-oriented design, collections, exception handling, immutability and the fundamentals of concurrency.
Solid experience with Spring Boot, particularly Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA or Hibernate, and Spring Security.
Good SQL skills, including relational schema design, indexes, transactions and investigating slow queries. PostgreSQL experience is preferred.
Developer-level AWS experience and an understanding of how applications are deployed and operate in a cloud environment.
A clear understanding of security best practices and their application in day-to-day development.
Experience taking features from requirements through implementation, testing and production release.
Clear communication skills, sound technical judgement and a collaborative approach to working with colleagues.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain features on a live Java and Spring Boot SaaS platform, collaborating with product, design and clinical colleagues.
Design and implement REST APIs, domain models and PostgreSQL schemas that support reliable, maintainable product development.
Write clean, readable code and create appropriate unit and integration tests as part of the development process.
Investigate and resolve production problems and issues reported by clients, communicating clearly and helping prevent recurrence.
Participate in code reviews, share knowledge and mentor junior developers while continuing to contribute directly to development.
Improve the existing platform incrementally and pragmatically, balancing technical quality with user and product needs.
Help deliver changes safely by considering security, data integrity, test coverage and operational behaviour throughout the development lifecycle.
Benefits
This role offers a salary of £60,000 and remote working within the UK. You will have the opportunity to work on a live HealthTech product, contribute to new product development and take ownership of engineering work from initial design through to production. The role also provides scope to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and help shape a platform through practical, hands-on development. Further details about the organisation’s benefits can be discussed during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity
Arc IT Recruitment and the hiring organisation are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process. Applications are welcomed from qualified candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences. Hiring decisions are based on role requirements, relevant skills and experience, without discrimination on any legally protected grounds.

Skills
Java

Experience
5+ yrs

Work arrangement
Yes