Senior Software Engineer

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London office.

About this opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Java) to join our Instant Payments (IP) Lab. IP is a regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Working closely with industry, the IP team is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience. This multi-million-pound initiative has a new partnership with a leading FinTech company and is looking for talented individuals who are interested in working with new and exciting technologies, such as Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Here's how you'll make a difference:

1. Having an excellent understanding in software development lifecycle is key (preferably the Agile Framework) and should be validated through your experience to date.
2. Write modular, well-tested applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale.
3. Significantly contribute in delivering the strategic solutions for Payment applications.
4. Ensure software is built in a way that is consistent with the frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider engineering community.
5. Lead a team of engineers, mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst crafting opportunities for learning and growth.

What you'll need

1. Strong understanding of the Java application stack, both breadth and depth, and an exposure to microservices technologies, especially Spring Boot, JSON, Kafka as well as RESTful APIs and web services.
2. Experience in Banking domain is a must with experience of working in Faster Payments scheme, BACS payments scheme and Image Clearing System.
3. A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.
4. Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD, Selenium).
5. Knowledge of Java development standard methodologies and patterns with an understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability and performant applications.
6. Technical understanding of: Spring Boot, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka, WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes.
7. Experience working on any one of the cloud-based tools - IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.
8. Excellent interpersonal and team working skills.
9. Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.

A typical day will look like:

1. Form the core of our design and decision forum, and support colleagues with advice based on your expertise.
2. Develop technical strategies to transform and modernise our lab.
3. Identify and build relationships with senior leaders to influence and enable the implementation of your strategies.
4. Supporting the management of key stakeholders in the business, and also 3rd parties we partner with.
5. Form part of one of our feature teams to define and drive their architecture, assist in daily delivery activity and defend your recommendations at senior architecture forums.
6. Educate both technical and non-technical colleagues about DevOps topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisions.

We're moving to utilise cloud for many of our applications, so you'll be heavily involved in our move for this area of the business.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

1. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
2. An annual performance-related bonus
3. Share schemes including free shares.
4. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
5. 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
6. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.