Software Engineering Lead / Technical Lead / Principal Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer
I've worked in the recruitment sector for over 15 years and this is one of the most interesting opportunities I've worked on in Software Engineering. If you are passionate, curious, hungry and seeking an opportunity to make your mark on Fintech in the United Kingdom, with the strength of a global team behind you - we'd love to talk to you. This is a unique opportunity to shape, direct and build better financial services for all UK businesses, whilst being part of a high growth tech company. Backed by leading global VCs, and brings together seasoned, experienced payment, banking and tech industry professionals who are aiming to redefine the market that they operate in.
Job Description
Software Engineering Lead / Technical Lead / Principal Software Enginer / Lead Software Engineer for Backend services you will be responsible for a range of backend systems such as Software applications that include areas such as: Payment Gateway, Settlement, Transaction Fraud Monitoring, Datalake Service and the Core Banking System. You will oversee their deployment, development, enhancements and production operations.
You should have extensive experience and skills in Software Engineering, DevOps, project management, incident management, team management and stakeholder management.
Additionally, you should have expertise in:
Multi-threaded Java backend development
API and SQL database development
Typescript and Node.js Applications
AWS Cloud Native and Serverless Architecture
You will collaborate with other stakeholders and manage suppliers to fulfil business requirements through system enhancements and maintenance. Ensuring high availability in production systems is a critical responsibility of this role.
To excel in this role, you should be:
A people-oriented leader who is easy to work with, adaptable and flexible while maintaining high standards.
Supported by global teams of engineers, QAs, SREs, and DevOps professionals.
Comfortable managing a mix of direct reports and shared teams
Skills & Experiences
AWS Technologies (e.g. ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Aurora, SQS, SNS, VPC, Private Link, etc.)
Multi-threading & Socket Programming: Java + Spring Applications
Architectures - Event Sourcing, CQRS, Polyglot Database, Traditional OLTP, OLAP
DevOps - Provisioning-based Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD
QA - Practical TDD, BDD
Experiences in payment domains
Proven track record in developing and maintaining mission-critical, high-load production systems with 99.999% SLA
Proven experience in supporting rapid and agile product deployments across different environments - dev, test, stress-testing, staging/production.
Your attributes
Loves challenging the status-quo
Ability to work autonomously yet collaboratively
Prepared to be bold yet consistent with your engineering principles
Logical, ethical, mature and responsible
Fast learner, humble and loves to share knowledge
Calm and exercises positive level of stress in exceptional circumstances such as; production issues, timeline requirements
Bonus points
Experience in working within a high-growth environment in the financial services or fintech industry
Experience in other cloud platforms (Azure, Google)
Experience in other programming languages
Experience with financial regulations and compliance requirements (e.g. GDPR, PCI-DSS)
For more info, please reach out.
Reasonable Adjustments:
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.
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