Java Software Engineer

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.

Join us as a Java Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Java Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• You’ll have the opportunity to build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• 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 capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

We’re looking for someone with a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You’ll be a middle -weight engineer with proven industry experience in Java, with strong unit and integration test writing skills and experience in writing microservices.

You’ll be experienced in guiding others through code reviews, and you’ll have solid knowledge of design principles and engineering standards. You’ll also have a proven history of writing clean testable code and be skilled in optimising software performance and delivering secure applications.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working in financial services
• Experience in microservices, CI/CD and AWS
• Technical skills including Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Restful API design and implementation, Containerization, Dependency Management, Spring including Core MVC framework, Boot and Sonarqube
• Strong communication skills and excellent task management
• Experience of DevOps, Jira, Agile and Scrum
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.