Senior Java Developer | Travel-tech Senior Java Developer | £300-400/day | Outside IR35 | Fully Remote within Europe

Senior Java Developer | Travel-tech Senior Java Developer | £300-400/day | Outside IR35 | Fully Remote within Europe

A fast-growing travel-tech organisation is embarking on a major product evolution and is looking for an experienced Senior Java Developer to join their team. This is a key engineering role working on high-traffic, consumer-facing systems used across Europe.

What You’ll Work On

  • Lead the evolution of a large-scale Java, Springboot, and MySQL, ensuring it can support a new universal architecture across multiple products.
  • Design and implement new backend features, Unit Testing, API testing, and system improvements to support both web and mobile clients.
  • Contribute to shared architecture, functional models, and backend design patterns to unify services across the organisation.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Senior-level expertise building and maintaining commercial, production-scale applications.
  • Deep proficiency in:
  • Java
  • Springboot (server-side development, API design)
  • MySQL (performance optimisation, complex queries, relational modelling)
  • Experience architecting and maintaining distributed backend systems.
  • Strong understanding of integration patterns, API design, and scalable service architecture.

Nice To Have

  • Node.js, PHP, MongoDB, Kafka, React (for back office apps)

Contract Details

  • 6-month contract — extension highly likely due to roadmap depth
  • Outside IR35
  • Fully remote within Europe

Apply now by sending your CV to alfie@virtuetech.io or by replying directly to this advert.

Senior Java Developer | Travel-tech Senior Java Developer | £300-400/day | Outside IR35 | Fully Remote within Europe

Salary: GBP 60000 - 84000 per year Experience: 5 years required
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