Hackajob Uxbridge, England, United Kingdom
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Overview
hackajob is collaborating with Virgin Media to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. You’ll join a high-performing team that’s focused on delivering a best-in-class payment experience for our members (our lovely customers), enabling them to pay for our services in a safe and secure way using whatever method best suits them. We strive for an outstanding member experience in all areas of giffgaff, and are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic software engineer who cares about the quality of their work and how the software and services they create will positively impact members. You’ll work cross‑functionally with like‑minded people to ensure this product is successful and sustainable.
Key Responsibilities
* Work with a full‑stack attitude within a self‑organising, cross‑functional product engineering team, using extreme programming practices, notably pair programming and test‑driven development.
* Build, support and maintain automated, fault‑tolerant, scalable products and solutions continuously delivered into our production environment.
* Leverage your experience and skills to assist your team in establishing the best architecture for your products and services.
* Be technically curious, proactive and able to produce solutions your colleagues can use, maintain, and learn from.
* Identify improvements in the software you use and build; accept feedback and adapt to your team and the company's current priorities.
Skills, Experience and Attitudes
Must Haves
* Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Clean Code & Refactoring, System Design
* Observability, "you build it, you run it" attitude
* Product mindset
* Good communication, giving and receiving feedback
Desirable Skills
* Event‑Driven Architecture; SOLID principles; microservices; micro‑frontends
* Experience in payments/financial systems
* A commitment to make ethical and responsible decisions that support giffgaff’s impact on people, planet and profit.
Tech Stack
* Server‑side: Java 21, Maven, Spring Boot, JUnit
* Client‑Side: Typescript, React and various React ecosystem tools and libraries
* Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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