Software Engineer

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVEin our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

**Role Summary**

Our Software Engineers are a key component in creating and delivering the company's products. They shape not only the software but also the process and technologies that we use to provide a richly functional service to our clients.

The software package this role is targeted for is founded on the Java technology stack, Web Frameworks (Struts, Tapestry, AngularJS), with Oracle PL/SQL and Pro*C. We provide software on a hosted or On-Premise basis.

This role is aligned to our Leeds office, but with the opportunity to work from home on a regular basis if preferred.

**Department Information**

**Role and responsibilities**:

- Develop software following industry best practices within the scope of Equiniti Credit Services projects and architecture.
- Author unit tests and work collaboratively to test that software meets acceptance criteria.
- Work collaboratively with product owners, architecture, design and infrastructure teams to meet client requirements.
- Assist in the maintenance of the process for packaging and releasing software; and supporting the delivery of software to production.
- Participate in planning, retrospective, review sessions and daily stand-ups.
- Providing support to service desk and technical delivery teams as required.
- Encourage the continuous improvement of the team.

**Skills, Capabilities and Attributes**:

- Directly relevant experience as a Java full stack developer.
- Experience of developing in Eclipse (or similar).
- Excellent knowledge of Java web technologies including MVC frameworks (Struts, Tapestry, or AngularJS preferred).
- Practical knowledge and experience of developing SOAP Web Services (JiBX preferred).
- Practical knowledge and experience of developing REST APIs using JSON (Swagger preferred).
- Experience of multi-tier service based architectures.
- Good working knowledge of JDBC and Oracle database.
- Understanding of authentication and authorisation methods.
- Experience of working within waterfall and agile SDLC processes, including TDD/BDD.
- Practical knowledge and experience of unit testing, mocking or faking frameworks.
- Experience of working within Windows and UNIX/Linux operating systems.
- Finance sector experience would be preferred and extremely advantageous, particularly UK consumer lending.
- Understanding of skills, tools and patterns for building and releasing code.

**What We Offer**

**Save For Your Future** - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

**All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)** - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.

**Health and Wellbeing** - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.

**Employee discounts** - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

**Flexible Benefits** - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

**Time Off** - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

**Winning together** - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.