Lead Java Engineer jobs in Bedfordshire

You will work across cutting‑edge platforms including Payment Networks, Digital Banking, Emerging Payments, and highly scalable data and analytics environments built on Google Cloud Platform, Data Lakes and Power BI. This role involves modern engineering, integration, testing, and hands‑on development within a high‑impact digital landscape.

You will oversee 2–3 backend squads, shaping long-term microservices architecture using Java 21 and AWS. This role balances strategic technical leadership with hands-on mentorship to drive engineering excellence, security, and scalable system design. Why this role is remarkable:

Role: Lead Test Engineer Contract Length: 12 Months Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in office (except London). So Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle Must haves: - Significant experience leading and testing micro services - Functional and non functional testing - Hands on experience in automation testing Leadership skills - Experience leading microservices...

You will be required to support a mixture of R&D and product development activities within a leading autonomy and unmanned systems company.

You will be keen to get involved in all development areas and have a good track history/proven track record in both problem solving and quality software development.

Job Description Principal Engineer - Design Lead - Defence Sector - Permanent - Attractive – Buckinghamshire A Principal Engineer - Design Lead is needed for an established supplier of engineering solutions for the defence sector. They specialise in the design, manufacture and support of control systems, and power systems for defence platforms within the safety critical and harsh environment...

Head/Lead Mechanical Engineer - London - Tech Innovation We're partnered with one of the most innovative tech communications organisations in London, who rarely hire at this senior level. They are expanding globally and are looking to bring in an elite Head/Lead Mechanical Engineer to take full ownership and authority of their designs from concept through to delivery. This is a standout...

You will tackle technical challenges that bridge software engineering with real-world manufacturing processes. This role blends hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, offering both team mentorship and active involvement in architecture, design, process improvement, and code review.

Carbon Emission/Green Tech Start-up | Lead & Full Stack Engineer | LDN 2 Days Per Week | £50K - £120K + Healthy Equity Company: I'm looking for Full Stack Engineers who are excited about elegant systems as they are about real-world impact. Their mission is to reduce carbon emissions in the UK building a razor sharp platform for heat pumps to be installed in homes up and down the...

About Us We are a fast-growing fintech company building modern, scalable platforms that power real-world financial products. Our engineering culture values clean architecture, strong ownership, and pragmatic innovation. We operate in a cloud-native, microservices environment and invest heavily in frontend quality, design systems, and developer experience. The Role As a Lead Fullstack Engineer,...

HV Plant (Primary Design) Team Lead Location: United Kingdom (remote working available) Salary: up to £90,000 (+ benefits) Turner Lovell are recruiting on behalf of a leading utility infrastructure and engineering services provider delivering high-voltage power and grid connection projects across the UK. As part of continued growth within their power engineering division, our client is seeking...

Lead AI Engineer UK - Remote Portugal - Remote There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems! About This Role As a Lead AI Engineer in our Artificial Intelligence Group, you will be working on our Mentor line of products. Your main role will be to design and bring to life AI products and features applied to the problem of...

You will be both the hands-on technical lead and the architect of our future technology direction, guiding our software team while setting the foundations for a scalable product and engineering organisation. Working closely with our valuation specialists and product team, you will design solutions that fundamentally transform how valuation advisory services are delivered.

Are you an Engineering Team Lead who wants more than just fixing breakdowns and ticking boxes. This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast-moving manufacturing environment that's had multi-million-pound upgrades and investment poured into the site. New kit. New systems. Higher standards. I need someone who can step up and lead from the front. You'll report directly to the Engineering Shift...

Lead Electrical Engineer – Contract Feb start Hampshire Operator Provide specialist electrical engineering advice and recommendations to the Process and Maintenance Departments, for example: on day to day matters; ensuring electrical supply meets demand; equipment failures; investigations; equipment strategies; and reliability improvements. • Provide professional electrical engineering support...

Lead Platform Engineer London / WFH to £150k Are you a platform engineering technologist with start-up experience and a first class education looking for a new opportunity? You could be joining a small Fintech start-up run by small, successful and proven team of finance technology entrepreneurs, backed by Silicon Valley investors, as they build out the product, currently in stealth mode. As a...

Lead Software Engineer Stealth AI Fintech Startup | London | Hybrid (3 days on-site) We’re hiring on behalf of an innovative Fintech startup that is building an AI-driven platform that’s rethinking how investors analyse, access, and manage alternative assets (e.g. private equity, private credit and other private markets). They've built there MVP, raised funding from experienced fintech...

You will tackle technical challenges that bridge software engineering with real-world manufacturing processes. This role blends hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, offering both team mentorship and active involvement in architecture, design, process improvement, and code review.

You will work across cutting‐edge platforms including Payment Networks, Digital Banking, Emerging Payments, and highly scalable data and analytics environments built on Google Cloud Platform, Data Lakes and Power BI. This role involves modern engineering, integration, testing, and hands‐on development within a high‐impact digital landscape.

You will oversee 2–3 backend squads, shaping long-term microservices architecture using Java 21 and AWS. This role balances strategic technical leadership with hands-on mentorship to drive engineering excellence, security, and scalable system design. Why this role is remarkable:

Role: Lead Test Engineer Contract Length: 12 Months Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in office (except London). So Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle Must haves: - Significant experience leading and testing micro services - Functional and non functional testing - Hands on experience in automation testing Leadership skills - Experience leading microservices...