Job Description

In this role, you will:

• Be hands-on, delivering code to production, supporting the architecture and design of the system aligned to a microservice structure.
• Driving the delivery of code at a faster cadence across the wider team. Leading by example with the volume and reliability of change you are delivering.
• Actively engaging with the business and engineering leadership to fully understand requirements and get these understood across the wider team.
• Bring ideas and solutions to the table due to your understanding of the wider requirements.
• Lead and drive the wider engineering culture expected across our teams.
• Collaborate with a global team where co-ordination activities would cross regional boundaries.
• Proactively remove impediments, see risk and communicate issues to program management.
• Identify process inefficiencies and find innovative and programmatic ways to eliminate them.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Extensive experience in software engineering with proven expertise in designing, developing and deploying backend applications particularly with driving engineering and cultural change across the team and delivery process.
• Experience both designing microservice and the wider microservice architecture.
• Experience leading teams to deliver change to production at high cadence.
• Experience in good CI/CD practice and development.
• Experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs to production.
• Extensive experience writing schemas for and working with PostgreSQL databases.

You should also have experience with one or more of the following:

• Strong experience with Java, preferably recent use of the latest versions.
• An understanding of containers and Container Orchestration technology such as Docker/Kubernetes and GCP.
• Strong experience developing UI applications using ReactJS.
• Experience migrating databases from one stack to another e.g. MongoSQL to PostgreSQL.
• Experience leading engineering in global teams.
• Experience working in the financial sector, specifically banking, previously.

Skills Required