Your Role: Java Developer
Keeping our audiences entertained with their favourite podcasts, radio shows, video content and playlists, the Consumer Growth team builds best-in-class tech to help our teams create, finesse and deliver this content day after day. From internal studio tools to our Global Player product across mobile, smart speakers, smart TV and in-car platforms, we’re always looking for new ways to make our content look and sound great.
We’re looking for an adaptable, experienced Java Developer to help shape the future of Consumer Growth here at Global..
Key Responsibilities
Feature Development (50%): Develop new features that are functional, performant, well tested and aligned with business needs, while progressively modernising the underlying components and microservices in line with OSS lifecycles. Confidently demonstrate your work and its impact to stakeholders and the wider team.
Collaboration & Delivery (30%): Work closely with other developers, leads and product owners to understand requirements, shape implementation approaches and ensure smooth integration of microservices and components.
Operations, AI & Continuous Improvement (20%): Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, run services in Kubernetes (EKS on AWS), and support monitoring and alerting (Prometheus / Grafana). Help maintain a stable production environment. Use AI coding tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining rigorous code quality through reviews and strong engineering judgement.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Work with a modern Java / Spring / cloud tech stack and help remove unnecessary barriers to developer creativity.
Own It: Build tools used by some of the world’s best-loved podcasters and radio presenters.
Keep it Simple: Apply pragmatic coding practices to minimise unnecessary complexity.
Better Together: Embrace code reviews, pair programming, hack time and continuous investment in developer growth.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Delivered key features across our applications using sound architectural and software engineering principles.
Collaborated effectively to support successful delivery.
Demonstrated a passion for learning and sharing knowledge with others.
Developed a strong understanding of the business context and roadmap.
What You’ll Need
The ideal candidate will be proactive, keen to develop and implement innovative solutions, and able to:
Show strong hands-on development experience with Spring Framework 6+ and Spring Boot 3+.
Commit to testing, including writing and maintaining unit tests, using mocking frameworks and applying test-driven development.
Build REST and GraphQL APIs.
Work with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
Use RDBMS and ORM frameworks in practice.
Apply OOP fundamentals and event-driven architecture.
Appreciate the importance of Continuous Integration.
Collaborate successfully within a sociable, multi-functional team.
Leverage AI tools to enhance code quality and boost productivity.
Bonus points if you have:
Development experience with caching and message queue technologies.
Used containers as part of your development process.
Worked on web systems built to cope with millions of users.
Experience of agile practices.
Development experience with Kotlin.
Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform.
Skills Required
- Hands-on development experience with Spring Framework 6 or later
- Hands-on development experience with Spring Boot 3 or later
- Experience writing and maintaining unit tests
- Experience using mocking frameworks
- Experience applying test-driven development
- Experience building REST APIs
- Experience building GraphQL APIs
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Practical experience with relational database management systems and ORM frameworks
- Understanding of object-oriented programming fundamentals
- Understanding of event-driven architecture
- Understanding of continuous integration
- Ability to collaborate within a multifunctional team
- Ability to use AI tools to improve code quality and productivity
- Experience with caching technologies
- Experience with message queue technologies
- Experience using containers
- Experience building web systems supporting millions of users
- Experience with agile practices
- Development experience with Kotlin
- Practical knowledge of Kubernetes
- Practical knowledge of Terraform
Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Global and has not been reviewed or approved by Global.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days’ annual leave plus an extra work‑anniversary day, with the option to buy up to five additional days, points to broad time‑off flexibility. Enhanced family and accessibility leave further expand coverage.
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Healthcare Strength — Access to a 24/7 virtual GP, health and dental discount programs, long‑term sickness insurance, and life assurance at 4x salary indicate robust health protection. Free Headspace membership and nutrition coaching complement the core offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Discounted gym memberships, cashback benefits, discounted travel insurance, and access to company‑sponsored music events contribute lifestyle value. Feedback suggests these extras add to a fun, wellbeing‑oriented culture.
Global Insights
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
