Senior Developer, Java

Tribal is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our dynamic London-based team! As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll play a critical role in architecting and implementing the backbone of our cutting-edge applications. From crafting robust APIs to optimizing performance across complex systems, you’ll be at the forefront of delivering innovative backend solutions that drive our success. In this role, you’ll excel in working independently while collaborating with diverse teams, including Project Management, Front-End Developers, DevOps, and Solution Architects, to ensure seamless project delivery. Your expertise in Java and a broad array of enterprise technologies will empower you to design, develop, and refine scalable and efficient systems. Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from the Tribal Worldwide London office a minimum of 3 days a week. This is a contract role with a projected end date of December 19, 2025. You will: Collaborate and communicate efficiently and effectively with other groups such as Creative, QA teams and Business and Technology throughout all phases of a project lifecycle. Implement technology solutions that address our clients’ business needs and challenges while leveraging our best practices and state-of-the-art technologies. Own the development tasks and ensure they follow the overall technical architecture and design established by the technical lead. Understand and map user and business requirements to an appropriate technical solution. Maintain concise and clear documentation on the projects as dictated by tech capabilities guidelines and best practices. Debug or troubleshoot complex issues in existing software applications. Proactively provide feedback on policies and procedures when an opportunity for improvement exists. Proactively provide coaching and support to other members in fulfilling their tasks, performance, and overall technical skills. You have: 5+ years of commercial experience with relevant tools such as >Java8/11/17 (OpenJDK), Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, Jenkins, NVM, RESTful APIs, ActiveMQ or similar. Experience in authentication with third party services and API’s. Ability to analyse, profile and refactor code and processes to improve quality and performance. Excellent working knowledge of different data store technologies i.e: MongoDB, DocDB, MySQL, Redis. Experience of developing and deploying large web-based applications. Experience of managing and coding simultaneous projects with complex interdependencies. Understanding of the project management processes involved in website/portal development. Ability to multitask across projects and demonstrate flexibility to changing priorities. Tribal Worldwide is an equal opportunity employer. The Tribal Worldwide Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs tribalworldwide.co.uk, criticalmass.co m, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io . We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly. UK based