Senior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE:
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

SALARY:
£70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION:
Leeds

WORKING PATTERN:
Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Leeds office.

About this opportunity:

We are looking for a motivated back-end engineer to join feature teams dedicated to building a brand-new digital stockbroking platform from the ground up in Java.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of online trading by designing and implementing a streamlined, customer and colleague focussed platform that will redefine how our customers invest.

What you'll do…

• Join the Stockbroking Lab's engineering team and enhance our future platform proposition.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, architects, and other key stakeholders to deliver features and functionality.
• Take ownership of your own development, skills and career growth.
• Drive the culture of delivering highly resilient, secure and quality software.
• Drive adoption of best engineering practices.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

• Building back end RESTful APIs in Java
• Backend Microservices & accompanying frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot)
• Developing high quality, testable, re-usable and modular code with technologies like modern versions of Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus, Maven and Kafka.
• An understanding of developing high quality code and good service design through principles & practices like Clean Code, SOLID principles, Domain Driven Design and TDD
• GIT, source code management and managing concurrent change on a large code base.
• Automation and CI/CD across the SDLC using CI tooling
• Working with large-scale applications where high performance and low latency is a must
• Using distributed systems, asynchronous programming techniques and event driven architectures.
• Cloud native solutions (GCP) and integration with SaaS solutions via RESTful APIs.
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.

It would be great if you also had experience in…

• Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth)
• Greenfield development
• Delivering large scale data migrations (500k+ customers)
• Expertise in GCP, Quarkus, Kubernetes and Harness
• Certifications in any of the above technologies

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?
Join our journey.