Lead Java Developer

Lead Java Developer Utrecht | Product Development & Architecture | Mission-critical processes for healthcare, housing, mobility & financial security | Java 25, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS | €100.000

• Do you want to work for a highly stable SaaS tech company with a fundamental role in Dutch society for healthcare, housing, mobility & financial security?
• Do you get energy from both deep technical involvement within your team and close collaboration with tech leads, staff engineers and architects from other teams?
• Does it sound like an exciting challenge to build one generic, robust way of working for dozens of different communication flows, without falling back on custom-built solutions?
• Does a salary up to €100,000 appeal to you, along with working on a modern stack including Java 25, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch & AWS?

Then keep reading.

The organisation

This organisation is a true core tech company at heart, with a platform that a large part of the Netherlands interacts with daily, often without realising it. With their highly tangible products, they facilitate critical processes within, among others, healthcare, housing, mobility and financial security. The impact is so significant that multiple domains would come to a standstill without this platform.

The platform developed here is designed according to the latest standards. That's no surprise when you consider that their products are deeply embedded within their customers' core operations. This involves massive volumes of data, where accuracy is essential.

You'll be working within a modern event-driven microservices architecture, using technologies such as Java 21/25, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch and AWS.

The culture is friendly, driven and ambitious, with a clear focus on engineering. You'll work in an environment with a strong engineering culture, high autonomy and a healthy work-life balance.

The role: Lead Java Developer Utrecht

As Lead Java Developer, you'll join the team building a completely new messaging hub for all messaging that leaves and enters the platform, tens of millions of messages in total. Think of machine-to-machine traffic between systems, but also communication that ultimately reaches the customers of our customers. All of this needs to run supersecure.

The challenge lies, as elsewhere in the organisation, in scale and abstraction. There are countless different types of messages and communication flows, and the art is to build one generic architecture and solution for this, so you never have to build custom work case by case.

As the team's technical figurehead, you're the primary point of contact for your team members on technical matters. You'll also work closely with tech leads from other teams, staff engineers and architects to help shape the platform's technical direction.

The organisation is also exploring how AI can play a role in making the platform smarter, for example in modelling complex product logic and supporting decision-making. This is still in an exploratory phase, leaving room for you to help shape it.

Growth opportunities

You'll have the opportunity to grow towards Staff Engineer, Architect or, eventually, Engineering Manager.

What is required?

• Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience with Java 21 or higher is a strong plus
• Experience with technical leadership or mentoring engineers
• Experience with system design is a strong plus
• Experience with Spring Boot or Quarkus is a plus
• Experience with microservices architectures
• Experience with Elasticsearch is a plus
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures is a plus
• Experience with cloud (AWS and/or Azure) is a plus

What is offered?

• Salary between €85.000 and €100.000
• 32, 36 or 40-hour work week
• Employer-funded pension
• 25 vacation days
• Hybrid working (2 days in the office)
• Remote working options
• Healthy lunches prepared by an in-house chef
• Generous training budget
• Laptop of your choice
• Travel allowance

Interested?

Are you a Lead Java Developer looking for a role where you can both go deep technically and make an impact beyond your own team, within a platform that has real impact on the daily lives of millions of Dutch citizens?

Send your CV to Serge Warbout via serge@bitminded.nl or apply via LinkedIn.

I would be happy to tell you more about the organisation, the team and the technical context.