Back End Developer

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Back End Engineer to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Farnborough.

Our client is seeking an experienced Back End Engineer to join a team where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are core values. As a Back End Engineer, you will play a key role in developing robust, scalable backend systems that support mission-critical applications. You will work within a fast-paced Agile environment, designing and delivering high-quality software that has real impact.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to technical design, development, and testing practices while mentoring junior team members and helping to shape the engineering culture. You will help deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems that support business objectives and improve customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyse, design, develop, test, and deploy new features and user stories with a focus on high standards for security, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with product owners and other stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into high-quality technical solutions
• Guide and support junior engineers, helping to assign and manage their work while contributing to their technical growth
• Take ownership of design decisions for assigned products and ensure alignment with overall architecture and best practices
• Identify and remediate issues using sound engineering principles, while proactively designing solutions to prevent potential failures
• Participate in peer code reviews, test automation, and documentation as part of the development lifecycle
• Contribute to internal technology communities, sharing knowledge and driving best practices across teams
• Ensure delivery commitments are met through strong communication and informal leadership

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in software engineering, backend development, or related roles
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming and system design
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Experience with Java 17 or Java 21
• Strong understanding of Spring Boot and Spring Batch frameworks
• Familiarity with test automation using Cucumber or similar frameworks
• Exposure to observability tools such as Datadog
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle
• Practical knowledge of AWS Cloud services and infrastructure
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially Jenkins

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.