At a Glance
- Tasks: Build high-performance payment systems that power instant transactions for major banks.
- Company: Leading payments consultancy focused on real-time financial solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in an Agile environment with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact in the world of finance.
- Qualifications: Experience in Java and building scalable, resilient systems.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Are you a senior/lead hands-on Engineer who thrives in Banking, Financial Services or Payments environments? Do you enjoy building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems where correctness, resilience, and performance really matter? This is an opportunity to work at the core of real-time payments infrastructure, helping to power instant transactions for some of the world's largest banks. We’re hiring on behalf of a leading payments consultancy delivering mission-critical, event-driven platforms that integrate deeply with bank infrastructure to enable secure, real-time payments at global scale.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- You’ll play a senior individual-contributor role within a high-performing engineering team, building asynchronous, message-driven systems designed for scale, resilience, and near-zero downtime.
- Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency systems processing millions of real-time payment events.
- Build event-driven architectures using modern Java and reactive frameworks.
- Work extensively with non-blocking I/O, asynchronous flows, back-pressure, and concurrency.
- Contribute to system and API design, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Collaborate closely with architects, engineers, and client teams across Europe.
- Operate in Agile environments (Scrum / Kanban) with a strong engineering culture.
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