Job Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.


This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job description

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Join us as a Java Software Engineer Team Lead

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Java Software Engineer Team Lead 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

What you'll do

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Working in a permanent feature team, you'll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You'll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.


Alongside the technical work, you will be line managing a team of skilled engineers, working in the feature team, catering for their growth and development and helping the leadership team in growing and developing the platform, team and individuals.


You'll also be:

Realising exciting business functionality on a team-owned microservice platform hosted on AWS Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you'll need

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We're looking for someone with strong Java and Spring Boot experience in software design and implementation, including being able to solve complex problems. You'll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.


Additionally, you'll demonstrate:

Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way Familiarity with messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ Previous experience in line management roles within technical teams * Experience with Avaloq Banking Suite