📋 Job Overview
Build software that matters. Shape the future of engineering.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer - Java, Node.js & AWS who is passionate about building scalable, high-quality software and helping teams grow. This is more than a hands-on engineering role—you'll influence technical direction, mentor other engineers, drive architectural decisions, and help us embed AI and automation into the way we deliver value for our clients.
You'll thrive here if you enjoy solving complex problems, challenging assumptions, collaborating openly, and taking pride in delivering software that makes a real business impact.
🏢 About CreateFuture
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
🎯 The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer - Java, Node.js & AWS, you will:
- Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and resilient backend systems using modern Java, Node.js and the Spring ecosystem.
- Lead technical design and architectural discussions, ensuring solutions are maintainable, performant and aligned with best practices.
- Develop and evolve RESTful APIs with a focus on security, versioning, performance and reliability.
- Champion engineering excellence through clean code, automated testing, documentation and code reviews.
- Drive delivery across multiple initiatives while balancing speed, quality and commercial value.
- Mentor engineers through coaching, pairing and constructive feedback, helping raise capability across the team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems together and deliver outstanding outcomes for clients.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks and AI capabilities that improve how we build software.
- Promote automation wherever possible, removing repetitive work so teams can focus on solving meaningful problems.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation and technical excellence.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and resilient backend systems using modern Java, Node.js and the Spring ecosystem.
- Lead technical design and architectural discussions, ensuring solutions are maintainable, performant and aligned with best practices.
- Develop and evolve RESTful APIs with a focus on security, versioning, performance and reliability.
- Champion engineering excellence through clean code, automated testing, documentation and code reviews.
- Drive delivery across multiple initiatives while balancing speed, quality and commercial value.
- Mentor engineers through coaching, pairing and constructive feedback, helping raise capability across the team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems together and deliver outstanding outcomes for clients.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks and AI capabilities that improve how we build software.
- Promote automation wherever possible, removing repetitive work so teams can focus on solving meaningful problems.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation and technical excellence.
📌 Required Qualifications
- Strong commercial experience with modern Java (Java 8+) including Streams, Lambdas and Optional
- Spring Boot and the wider Spring ecosystem
- NodeJS
- Spring Data JPA / Hibernate
- Spring Security including OAuth2 and JWT
- REST API design and implementation
- Microservices and distributed system design
- SQL databases with strong query optimisation skills
- NoSQL databases
- Messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Docker and containerised application development
- Cloud platforms AWS
- CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
- Git and modern software development workflows
- Observability tooling including logging, metrics and distributed tracing
- Comprehensive testing across unit, integration and functional layers
- Maven or Gradle
- Java concurrency and JVM performance fundamentals
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Experience with Python, Spring Cloud, WebFlux or reactive programming would be advantageous.
🎁 Benefits
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
