Senior Java Software Engineer in Sheffield

Must have: Java, API, Microservices, Kafka, AWS/Azure/GCP, Banking/Payment experience

Responsibilities

• Set the level expected for software delivery within the team, leading by example
• Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate
• Provides analysis and solutions to technical and business issues
• Understand and apply technology and corporate vision setting direction on implementation.
• Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage
• Maintains the complex technical infrastructure of assigned area to meet the business requirements.
• Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management.
• Remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility
• Resolve architectural or development blockers raised
• Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI/CD pipelines to deploy services
• Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyze vendor solutions and negotiate contracts, and develop appropriate standards for technology application.
• Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager
• Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures.
• For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications
• Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems
• Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objective
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required.
• Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards
• Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Engineering or related majors
• Minimum of 8 years’ applied experience as an API engineer
• Strong experience in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc.
• More than 5 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware
• More than 8 years’ experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust
• Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
• Experience working with Kafka, Docker, k8s, service mesh
• Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry
• Experience in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing
• Demonstrable knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI.
• Strong SQL coding abilities is preferred
• Experience of working in a financial institution, ideally in payments
• Ability to work independently and think out of the box
• The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
• Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success
• Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation
• Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally
• Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting