Software Engineer - Java

As a Senior Software Engineer, you ll be consulted on product and feature designs and will be critical to their quality implementation and delivery. You will have the opportunity to stretch yourself in, API development, and systems integration, as well as contribute to the evolution of this system and the business strategy. You ll also be invited to attend our regular engineering guilds to broaden your expertise and participate in agile ceremonies, which will allow you to contribute to and define the way we operate.

In this role you be joining our Services, Smart Merchant Solutions Squad who are charged with the design and delivery of our Merchant specific Solutions across the group enabling and improving the Merchant experience from onboarding to operations and maintenance activities.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Apply the principles of design, development, testing, deployment, support, and evaluation.
• Develop and deploy high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage without supervision.
• Analyse business objectives and translate requirements to technical implementation components.
• Design and build programs or application features meeting business objective and requirements.
• Provide accurate estimates for the development effort for new features.
• Provide mentoring and technical assistance to other members of the team.
• Apply and promote industry best patterns and practices.
• Contribute to the strategic engineering goals within own team and platform.
• Lead Level 3 or above support and technical troubleshooting activity. Have demonstrated experience in large and complex enterprise environments, preferably in banking and financial services, or similar large enterprise environments developing solutions in Java.
• Provide technical governance and guidance throughout the complete solution delivery lifecycle.
• Are passionate about learning new tools and technologies and are constantly thinking outside the box.
• Design, document and implement solutions to distribute source system data via bulk interfaces.
• Produces high-quality technical solutions that are sustainable by utilising approved delivery frameworks and using industry best practises.
• Contribute to complex delivery planning by providing guidance and oversight to ensure that technical deliveries are aligned with engineering direction and strategy.
• Have the ability to constructively challenge the status quo, while influencing stakeholders at various levels.
• Collaborate with peers and help grow capabilities within the squad and across the crew.

Essential Skills

• Hands-on experience with 3+ years in Java and Spring/Spring Boot essential
• REST APIs including creation of Open API specifications essential
• Knowledge on API Gateway would be beneficial but not essential
• Experience in building modern microservices architecture
• Cloud platforms: AWS services is preferred
• Configuration as Code to manage your application configuration
• Source control systems (Git), SAST/DAST, and with CI/CD toolsets
• Sound understanding of application and system security best practices

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree/master s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology or any similar stream