Senior API Engineer (6 Month Contract)

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This role is for a Senior API Engineer on a 6-month contract, offering a pay rate of "unknown." It is remote, requiring strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS Lambda, and scalable APIs, along with Agile practices.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
🗓️ - Date discovered
April 19, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
More than 6 months
🏝️ - Location type
Remote
📄 - Contract type
Fixed Term
🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
📍 - Location detailed
United Kingdom
🧠 - Skills detailed
#Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Documentation #Spring Boot #Java #Cloud #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Scala #Databases #Agile #Scrum #Python #Libraries #API (Application Programming Interface) #Consul #JavaScript #Containers #Unit Testing #AWS Lambda
Role description

hackajob is collaborating with CreateFuture to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

Senior API Engineer (6 month contract)

CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first.

We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country.

We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, Adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few.

Join us on our journey… Let’s create something awesome, together, today.

Our Tech

We develop web and mobile applications in a variety of different languages and frameworks, with AWS as our primary cloud platform. Our CI/CD infrastructure varies with what makes sense — we have to balance customer requirements with making sure we have the right tools for the job and you will be an integral part of influencing these choices of technology.

What You'll Be Doing

   • Developing backend services and APIs, including interaction with databases with a focus on readable, maintainable and well-tested code

   • Integrating with third-party APIs such as payment gateways

   • Creating associated API documentation and working in partnership with developers consuming your APIs and services

   • Working as part of a cross-functional scrum team and contributing your expertise to drive the overall success of a project

   • Being an advocate for engineering best practices across your project team Mentoring and sharing your knowledge with team members

We'd Love To Talk To You If You Have

   • Strong hands-on experience using Java, Spring Boot and Kafka

   • AWS Lambda

   • Previous experience of Containers

   • Highly experienced when it comes to creating scalable API's

   • Experience of working with any other languages and associated frameworks / libraries such as Python and JavaScript

   • Enthusiastic and experienced when it comes to using engineering best practices, clean code, and unit testing

   • Experienced when it comes to working as part of a cross-functional development team (using Agile best practices)

Next Steps

Our TA team aims to respond to all applications within a reasonable timeframe, regardless of if we are progressing with your application.

Our Process

   • 30-minute call with Talent Acquisition

   • 60-minute Technical Assessment