Senior Java Engineercategorytechnology & Digitaljob Id2025 - 0019495locationlondon, United Kingdomposting Start Date08/19/2025job Typefull Time

Senior Java Engineer

The Agile Software Developer will execute end-to-end development and testing of software products in an agile lifecycle. Partnering with key technical and business stakeholders, the agile developer will help refine the product vision, estimate, design and build a solution before supporting it into production.

You will be expected to lead by example working within the team and boosting their ability to deliver business requirements while improving core engineering and reducing technical debt.

This is a hands-on roll involving a large amount of coding and problem solving.

Required

• Java – Extensive experience working with both large enterprise monolithic applications and modern cloud, micro service platforms
• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JSP, Dropwizard, Maven, Gradle, Tomcat, Jetty, Junit, Mockito
• Database
• Microsoft SQL Server/Service Broker, TSQL, RDS
• Functional and Nonfunctional testing experience - ability to create and maintain complex automated testing suites for modern and legacy application
• DevOps capabilities
• Containers, cloud, automation, security, configuration management, CI/CD
• Continuous Integration – Jenkins (declarative and containerised pipelines), GIT
• Experience working with Agile processes and methodologies

Nice to have

• Payments experience

Responsibilities / Qualities

• Lead the evaluation of ideas, tools, technology, standards and best practice
• Support innovation by acting as a sounding board for ideas and help bring them to life
• Actively engage in tracking and reducing technical debt
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with wider Opayo team
• Strong grasp of industry standards, best practices and design patterns
• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment
• Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff

The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.