Software Engineer

End Date We Support Flexible Working – Click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary Aims to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model Job Description About the role We’re seeking a talented Senior Java Engineer to join our team; you’ll be responsible for designing and developing high throughput applications using java with high quality production ready code to deliver functionality to our customers. You’ll be accountable for ensuring all decisions are made within a sound risk framework and within Group standards and appetite while managing the full software development process within an agile environment What you’ll do

• Design and develop applications in Java with automated tests to ensure it meets business functionality.

• Implement monitoring for applications and analyse health & performance to improve.

• Be part of cross-functional product engineering team and adhere engineering standards throughout the software development life cycle.

• Pair with other engineers to review the code considering the quality standards agreed to follow in the team.

• Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a repository.

• Collaborate with architects and other senior engineers to produce application/design documentation.

• Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.

• Mentor/coach the engineers to deliver high quality applications that are designed for security, testing, maintainability and observability

What you’ll need

• Hands on experience in building enterprise REST API (with open API standards) in Java (min Java 11) and experience with Java frameworks like Hibernate, spring boot, spring core and spring security.

• Hands-on experience working with Kafka, including experience with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Kafka API.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and experience working with GCP Cloud SQL and Spanner

• Experience with TDD practices like automated unit and integration tests and Dev Ops practices like CI/CD

• Experience in designing and building high volume distributed event driven systems at scale, fault tolerant, resilience and highly observable

• Experience working with messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub.

• Good knowledge using modern technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Github actions, Istio Service mesh, Helm, api-gateway, SRE, DORA concepts and metrics and Scalable / NoSQL Databases etc.

• Experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally GCP

Nice-to-Have Skills: Strong understanding of DevOps principles