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Stott and May

Senior Software Engineer

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London, United kingdom

Senior

Full Time

24-11-2025

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Skills

Communication Leadership Java Monitoring Architecture Programming AWS Spring Hibernate

Job Specifications

Senior Software Engineer

Location: London (x3 days a week onsite)

Salary: Up to £80k DOE

Type: Perm

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate Senior Java Engineer in London to lead the design and development of core product features and services that power an app used by thousands of travellers on a daily basis.

As a Senior Java Engineer for an loyalty program team, you will have the opportunity to make a massive impact on traveller's behaviour and booking experience. Specifically, you’ll be responsible for driving improvements to loyalty offerings that enable millions of business & leisure travellers.

What You’ll Do:

Designing and implementing APIs and core services
Developing models and business logic
Building out impactful product features
Ensure the quality of the features you built, follow-up on usage/issues post release.
Work closely with product and design team to deliver new features that align with the needs of the business
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers on the team
Contribute and drive frameworks that lead to significant user experience improvements
Assist the team in understanding and adopting new technologies

What We're Looking For:

Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals combined with 5+ years of experience building products
Deep architecture and API design skills to build core services and new product features
Strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation
Passion for solving problems and learning new tools and technologies
Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products
Experience with Java, AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus
Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus
Experience with Spring Framework is a plus

About the Company

In late 2009, Stott and May was founded on the belief that hiring managers should never have to make the choice between time to hire and quality of candidate. We noticed a gap in the market for a search offering that can combine the speed of contingent recruitment with a high value, high touch, insightful service more commonly found in the executive search space. A talent solution that's helpful, engaging, collaborative and stacked full of value-add. Built with the flexibility to provide our partners with a choice of best pr... Know more