JAVA GUI Developer - JavaFX / C++

Standard 8 Recruitment Ltd

📍 Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Full-time computer-and-mathematical Posted March 03, 2026

Job Description

Surrey - 5 days onsite
£50,000–£85,000 + benefits
UK Passport required - eligible for MOD clearance
Standard 8 is recruiting a Senior Java/C++ GUI Developer for a defence engineering team building real-time, high-data systems used in live operational environments.
This is not web apps. It’s performance-heavy software, complex GUIs and systems that have to work first time.
The Job
You’ll join an experienced Java team developing desktop applications for data-intensive, mathematically heavy systems.
Day to day:
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Building Java applications with JavaFX or Swing
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Working in Linux environments
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Contributing to real-time processing systems
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Getting stuck into C++ where needed
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Testing properly, not just hoping for the best
What You Need
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5+ years’ Java background software engineering experience
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Solid GUI development using JavaFX or Swing
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Some C++ experience ...