Job Description

Join us as a Java Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It's a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do
In your new role, you'll be working within the API Management team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
The team develops and maintains a distributed platform of micro-services exposing a large number APIs to both internal and external consumers. Your primary focus will be on the design and development of backend services that support business transformation initiatives.
You'll also be:

• Implementing micro-services using Java and Spring technologies
• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capabilities and practices
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
• Taking ownership of service and feature delivery with attention to quality and timeliness

The skills you'll need
To take on this role, you'll need proven experience in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You'll need a degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent professional experience, along with strong Java 11/17 development skills, with demonstratable experience using Spring framework, Hibernate and PostgreSQL.
In addition you'll need strong experience designing and building RESTful APIs, proficient usage and understanding of Test-Driven Development and practical experience with API design tooling such as OpenAPI specifications and tools, along with API management platforms and web security protocols such as OAuth 2.0. It would be beneficial to have experience working with Avaloq Banking Suite and DevOps using Kubernetes.
You'll also need:

• Solid version control skills using Git and associated workflows
• Familiarity with messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies
• Proven experience with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools such as Jira and wikis, such as Confluence
• Experience with DevOps practices and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• Strong analytical skills with a proactive approach for solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Demonstrated sense of responsibility and ownership for your work

Hours 35
Job Posting Closing Date: 26/09/2025
Ways of Working:Remote First

Skills Required