CreateFuture

About the Company

CreateFuture was built to take action. With our 500-strong team of software engineering, strategy and design experts, across Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Manchester, we’re determined to get you exactly what you need.

As with our past clients, we get to the root of your challenge and do everything it takes to create positive solutions by building digital products and services that solve problems.

With years of experience helping catalyse major organisations into action, our rapid growth has been driven by people who seek to understand before they solve. We care about our craft. We challenge each other by asking, “Why not?”. And we’re proud to collaborate and partner with the likes of PayPal, adidas, FanDuel, Money Saving Expert, Penguin Random House, Yorkshire Building Society and more.

With CreateFuture, our people are at the forefront of every outcome and we know that a strong team dynamic is critical to success, so we’ll be there for you every step of the way. We draw on their unique skills for problem-solving – and helping your teams unleash their potential too. Put simply, we want to be an organisation that people want to work for and want to work with.

You don’t need to have all the answers. Share your problem and we’ll go from there. Let’s create something incredible, together, today.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

CreateFuture

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Job Description

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.

Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work. Don’t just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low.

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



About the role and team:
You will form part of a cross-functional agile team, working closely with 3-5 other engineers working closely with QA, Product and Design teams to deliver high-quality work for clients across a number of industries.

We strive to create the best product possible with everyone's effort, and you'll be an integral part of that mission. Your role in the team is highly valued, and you'll be a key player in ensuring the success of our projects.

We define our Senior role as someone who is able to confidently champion technical improvements, sets the bar high for best engineering practices and takes responsibility for the overall success of the project for the client and CeateFuture.

Our Tech:
Our backend team focuses on the following tech stack:
Java
RESTful Java APIs
CI/CD
AWS

What you'll be doing:
Developing RESTful Java APIs, including interaction with databases with a focus on readable, maintainable and well-tested code
Integrating with third-party APIs such as payment gateways
Being an advocate for engineering best practice within your project team
Help to grow our engineering function by participating in initiatives designed to increase our technical capabilities
Collaborating with the full project team (including BAs, QAs and members of the client team) to provide the best solutions to our clients
Identifying bottlenecks in the software delivery process and removing any roadblocks that arise
Professional handling of difficult client communications for specific issues
Identifying knowledge gaps and mentoring opportunities for your team
Being able to define and oversee the technical implementation of a client project

We'd love to talk to you if:
You have strong knowledge of API development using Java, including ORM storage
You actively facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within the team and wider department
You advocate for best engineering practices such as code reviews, paired programming, and automated tests
You are familiar with cloud services and CI/CD (this is a bonus)


What we'll offer you:
At CreateFuture, we challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and we care deeply about our craft and customers. With us, you’ll have ambitious projects to sink your teeth into and plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll be part of our safe, supportive and friendly culture - that looks after you - and join our team of genuinely great people.

Our benefits include:
Total 35 days holiday (we have flexible bank holidays)
Comprehensive private medical insurance
Enhanced parental and adoption leave
Pension - matched up to 5%

View our complete list of benefits here.

As this is a hybrid role, we’re looking for people within a commuting distance of our Leeds office and who are flexible to travel to client sites and CreateFuture regional offices. We are very flexible and trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face-to-face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.
We create and reinforce a culture that rewards employees’ impact, not just activity. We trust our employees to work autonomously and promote ownership across all levels.


Next steps
Our Talent Acquisition team aim to respond to all applications within a reasonable timeframe, regardless of if we are progressing with your application.

Our interview process:
30-minute recruiter call
1-hour technical assessment
Take home test or pair programming session + values interview


You can choose a short take-home task or a live pairing exercise for the final interview, whichever suits you best. Our interview process is designed as an opportunity both for our interviewers to learn about your expertise, interests and motivations and for you to gain insights into CreateFuture, the role and the team, so throughout the process, you’ll meet a few people from our backend team as well as others from our wider teams to help you get a well-rounded view of the role and life at CreateFuture.

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.

Leeds, United Kingdom

On site

19-02-2025

Company Name

CreateFuture

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Java) - 3 month contract

Job Description

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.

Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work. Don’t just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low.

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.

The Role

Developing RESTful Java APIs, including interaction with databases with a focus on readable, maintainable and well-tested code
Integrating with third-party APIs such as payment gateways
Being an advocate for engineering best practice within your project team
Help to grow our engineering function by participating in initiatives designed to increase our technical capabilities
Collaborating with the full project team (including BAs, QAs and members of the client team) to provide the best solutions to our clients
Professional handling of difficult client communications for specific issues
Being able to define and oversee the technical implementation of a client project

Requirements

You have strong knowledge of API development using Java, including ORM storage
You actively facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within the team and wider department
You advocate for best engineering practices such as code reviews, paired programming, and automated tests
You are familiar with AWS cloud services and CI/CD

Next steps

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

Our Interview Process

30-minute recruiter call
1-hour 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.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

On site

27-02-2025