Java Backend Developer

About the job

Title: Java Backend Developer Type: Contract (3-months, extensions likely) Location: Remote About Ovyo: Ovyo is a B2 B services company providing flexible Engineering team & talent services to the streaming (video/media), satellite and comms industries. In 2024, we merged with The Loop co., a Portuguese software services company, so we now boast over 250 Engineers across the different locations ( ... UK, India, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil, US and eastern Europe). At Ovyo, our people build the platforms that shape the way the world watches video and connects, working on a mix of long-term customer engagements and shorter consulting projects, quickly fast tracking their experience within the industry, and their career. We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our multidisciplinary, agile Core Platform Engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and optimising a large-scale platform that delivers Video on Demand and Live Events to users worldwide. The platform is built on Java-based, event-driven microservices and RESTful APIs running on AWS, and the team are solving complex, high-scale engineering challenges every day. This role suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced, technically demanding environment and takes real ownership of the systems they build. Key Responsibilities - Design, build, maintain and optimise backend services and APIs - Develop and operate event-driven microservices running on AWS - Ensure platform reliability, scalability, performance and security - Collaborate closely with product, QA and Dev Ops in agile delivery teams - Create and maintain automated tests (unit & integration) - Take ownership of features and services from design through to production - Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering best practices Required Skills & Experience - Strong commercial experience with Java 11+ - Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL) - Strong understanding of software design principles & design patterns - Experience working with event-driven architectures - Experience building RESTful APIs (JAX-RS, Dropwizard, Spring Boot or similar) - Experience with automated testing (unit & integration) - Comfortable working in agile development teams Nice to Have - AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, Kinesis, Dynamo DB) - Docker & containerised workloads - No SQL database experience

Requirements

• Java
• AWS
• Microservices
• RESTful APIs
• PostgreSQL

Preferred Technologies

• Java
• AWS
• Microservices
• RESTful APIs
• PostgreSQL

About the company

Ovyo is a B2B services company providing flexible Engineering team & talent services to the streaming (video/media), satellite and comms industries.