Senior API Engineer (6 month contract)

CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. 

We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, Adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few.

Join us on our journey… Let’s create something awesome, together, today.

Our Tech
We develop web and mobile applications in a variety of different languages and frameworks, with AWS as our primary cloud platform. Our CI/CD infrastructure varies with what makes sense — we have to balance customer requirements with making sure we have the right tools for the job and you will be an integral part of influencing these choices of technology.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing backend services and APIs, including interaction with databases with a focus on readable, maintainable and well-tested code
• Integrating with third-party APIs such as payment gateways
• Creating associated API documentation and working in partnership with developers consuming your APIs and services
• Working as part of a cross-functional scrum team and contributing your expertise to drive the overall success of a project
• Being an advocate for engineering best practices across your project team
• Mentoring and sharing your knowledge with team members

We'd love to talk to you if you have:

• Strong hands-on experience using Java, Spring Boot and Kafka
• AWS Lambda
• Previous experience of Containers
• Highly experienced when it comes to creating scalable API's
• Experience of working with any other languages and associated frameworks / libraries such as Python and JavaScript
• Enthusiastic and experienced when it comes to using engineering best practices, clean code, and unit testing
• Experienced when it comes to working as part of a cross-functional development team (using Agile best practices)

Next Steps:

Our TA team aims to respond to all applications within a reasonable timeframe, regardless of if we are progressing with your application.

Our process:

1. 30-minute call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
2. 60-minute Technical Assessment

We believe that representative teams made up of people with different backgrounds, skills, and points of view help us build the best workplace possible, and enable us to create genuinely innovative, broadly useful products.

We are committed to our goal of creating the most inclusive workplace possible. As we strive to build an environment where everyone can thrive and be themselves, we will continue to investigate and challenge biases, while working to identify and remove obstacles to inclusion. If you need additional support or accommodation during the application process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.