About the Role
Join us as a Software Engineer, Backend. This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer. You'll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system. Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role.
Responsibilities
•Design, produce, test, and implement software across the system lifecycle
•Lead the technical delivery of a software engineering team
•Develop knowledge of the platform across business, applications, data, and infrastructure
•Liaise with principal engineers, domain architects, and stakeholders to understand the platform and how it supports business objectives
•Supervise solution design options and explain their pros and cons to stakeholders
•Lead estimation activities and ensure delivery plans reflect technical complexity, maintainability, and supportability
•Apply Agile methods to software development from the backlog
•Produce resilient, long-lived software and adapt it to future needs
•Deliver intentional architecture and develop emergent designs through ideas, experimentation, and prototyping
•Design and develop software focused on automating build, test, and deployment activities using executable patterns
•Lead the implementation of programming best practices for scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, and performance
Requirements
•Experience working in banking or financial services
•Strong hands-on experience developing and delivering solutions using modern Java technologies
•Experience designing and developing microservices and distributed systems
•Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
•Expertise working with relational databases
•Experience building cloud-based solutions in AWS
•Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions
•Collaboration skills and ability to work with business teams to deliver pragmatic solutions
•Experience with information security policies and practices in the financial sector
•Exposure to AI technologies such as LLMs, machine learning, or agentic systems
•Experience leading or mentoring engineers
•Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including explaining complex technical concepts simply
Nice to Have
•Oracle or PostgreSQL, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Agile delivery practices
Conditions
•Permanent feature team
•35 hours
•Closing date: 29/09/2026
