Java Software Engineer in Glasgow

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.

Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.

You will be working within a global Agile squad responsible for developing Transaction Reporting systems with robust controls to ensure timeliness and accuracy of reported data to enable clients to manage their risk. The role will expose the candidate to all phases of the production development lifecycle including working with Operations Users to understand and best implement their requirements. There is scope to grow and learn both technically (migration to AWS/Azure Public cloud, being part of a modernization programme, big data management) as well as opportunity to deepen business understanding of financial regulations and products.

• Java 8, Kafka, Collections, Multi-threading, problem solving as core skillset with knowledge of databases and design patterns, and some hands-on experience on UNIX.
• The candidate needs to be a self-starter, a confident personality with good communication skills who can work with minimum oversight and handholding.

• Work as a developer on projects adding functionality and scale to the platform.
• Write clean code and follow best practices on software design.
• Maintain the platform by sharing support responsibilities with the rest of the team.
• Willingness to learn domain fundamentals and explain calculation logic to users.

• Computing fundamentals: Working knowledge of common search and sort algorithms, basic data structures such as lists, maps, trees, and graphs, multi-threaded programming, computer networking, and operating systems.
• Databases: Basic knowledge of SQL; familiarity with non-relational databases.
• Communication Skills: Good oral and written English communication skills are required for this role. A successful candidate must be able to work alongside the users and the wider developer community in the firm and should also be able to communicate effectively with them.

Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.