Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, producing, testing, and implementing software across the system lifecycle.
• Developing knowledge of platform aspects (business, applications, data, infrastructure).
• Liaising with principal engineers, architects, and stakeholders to understand platform functionality and support business objectives.
• Applying Agile methods to software development.
• Producing resilient and scalable software.
• Delivering intentional architecture and emergent design through innovation, experimentation, and prototyping.
• Designing and developing software with focus on automation of build, test, and deployment activities.
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps for application and software components.
• Defining, creating, and overseeing engineering and design solutions with focus on automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability, and reusability.
• Monitoring technical progress, safeguarding functionality, scalability, and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders.

Skills and Expertise

• Strong full-stack experience in software design and implementation.
• Exploiting programming languages to solve complex problems.
• Complex requirements analysis capture and validation against business and systems requirements.
• IT experience including experience in leading software development teams, introducing and executing technical strategies using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling.
• Experience with programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, and performance.
• Experience in designing and developing high-performance, high-availability Payment Data Lake using proven frameworks and technologies (J2EE, Mongo, Kafka, Spring, REST).
• Knowledge of AWS Skillset (EC2, S3, EKS, Docker, Grafana).
• Strong payments domain knowledge and experience with payment systems (CHAPS/SEPA/Target).
• Sound collaboration skills with business teams.
• Experience with information security policies and practices in the financial sector.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.