The opportunity
Our client is a well-established UK bank serving personal, business and commercial customers. Following a period of major transformation, it has a clear strategy and a significant engineering agenda: modernising core platforms, decoupling services and building first-class digital journeys. They're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership within a cross-functional squad. You'll lead design, set engineering standards and mentor others - while remaining hands-on with the code. It's a bank big enough that your work will impact millions of customers, but small enough that your technical decisions are visible and make a difference.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the technical design and development of features and services, working closely with Solution Architecture.
- Building secure, resilient back-end services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot, alongside modern front-end applications using React and TypeScript.
- Developing cloud-native applications and distributed services across Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Breaking legacy capabilities into well-bounded, event-driven microservices and integrating with core banking and payment platforms.
- Designing and implementing event-driven architectures using Kafka and API management technologies such as Kong.
- Managing containerised workloads using Kubernetes, with infrastructure automation through Terraform and Helm.
- Taking ownership of services in production, including observability, incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Setting engineering standards across code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, security and infrastructure as code.
- Mentoring engineers and influencing engineering practices beyond your immediate squad.
- Working with product, QA, architecture and delivery partners to translate business requirements into high-quality software.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years' commercial software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at senior level.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot, building distributed back-end services and APIs.
- Experience with React and TypeScript and modern front-end development.
- Strong system design capabilities, particularly microservices, event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- Hands-on cloud engineering experience with Microsoft Azure, ideally including AKS.
- Experience with containers and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with API management and integration technologies such as Kong.
- Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, alongside deployment tooling such as Helm.
- Mature engineering practices covering automated testing, CI/CD, secure coding and production support.
- Experience leading technical design decisions and mentoring other engineers.
- Confident communicator, comfortable engaging with engineers, architects and business stakeholders.
Our client welcomes applications from everyone and will make reasonable adjustments at any stage. If you don't meet every requirement but the role excites you, we'd still like to hear from you.
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