Freelance Mid-Level Java Engineer – x2

Remote work offering – 100%

Initial Contract Length – 3 months (potential to extend)

Start Date: ASAP (Latest August 2026)

Project focus

x2 Mid-Level Java Engineers are needed on a backend team taking ownership of a growing portfolio of consumer-facing services. Alongside maintaining and enhancing these services, the team is building a new feature using modern event-driven architecture and cloud-native technologies.

Key skills and Experience required

• Commercial Java development experience (Java 25, Spring Boot 4 microservices)
• PostgreSQL 17 – schema design and query authoring in a jOOQ (not JPA/Hibernate) environment
• Apache Kafka
• OAuth2 / JWT authentication (Auth0)
• Experience building and supporting consumer-facing applications and APIs
• AWS (EKS, RDS, MSK) exposure is an advantage, as is Liquibase, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, and modern cloud-native architectures

If this role is of interest, please apply with an updated CV.

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Nelly Ngcobo