Java developer - 6 months inside IR35

  • Opus Recruitment Solutions
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
  • Sep 10, 2025
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Job Description

I am working with a consultancy feeding into the public sector looking for multiple Java developers.

Inside IR35
60% of the week travel to Newcastle (negotiable)

Key Behaviours:
  • Collaborates with others when necessary to review specifications and uses these agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
  • Can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
  • Uses a modern standards approach competently and guides others in so doing.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance, including coaching and mentoring team members and their professional development.
  • Sees the bigger picture by taking groups of services and investigating how to get the best of underlying services.
Essential Skills:
  • Expert in Software Engineering best practices
  • Docker and containerisation
  • Expert in TDD and BDD
  • Micro-service architecture and API principles
  • AWS and practical experience of Infrastructure-as-Code (desirable -> Terraform)
  • CI/CD pipelines (desirable -> GitLab CI)
  • Java 11/17/21and Springboot framework