Senior Full Stack Engineer in Sheffield

Location: Hybrid- Sheffield, UK

Duration: 6 months+ Contract Inside IR35

The role includes the following major responsibilities:

• Deliver engineering expertise for our Future State Architecture, producing best in class payment processing capabilities.
• Deliver high quality code artefacts that set the example for the team, ensuring quality gates are surpassed and robust test scripts are included.
• Focus on delivering highly available, highly resilient software and service capability.
• Participate in a wider delivery team providing design and development of the new capabilities.
• Support transformation of the current payment estate, with a laser focus on modernization and adoption of cloud-based technology.

The role includes the following major accountabilities:

• Set the level expected for software delivery within the team, leading by example.
• Serve as an expert in the area of responsibility, identifying process improvements and problem prevention, and advising department and management of relevant information as appropriate.
• Provide 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 implement technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage.
• Maintain the complex technical infrastructure of assigned area to meet the business requirements.
• Provide 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 the DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, execute DevSecOps value streams and CI/CD pipelines to deploy services.
• Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyse 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 objectives.
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required.
• Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards.
• Ensure 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 15 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 10 years of engineering background in Back End microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and Middleware.
• More than 10 years' experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust.
• Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostics for application troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
• Expertise in distributed system design including microservices, Springboot.
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh.
• Expertise in Kafka, able to build and configure a cluster and develop software to produce and consume to/from the cluster.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry.
• Expertise in cloud and DevOps, familiar with network (VPC) and Firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing.
• Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI.
• Expert-level SQL coding abilities preferred.
• Understanding of distributed Databases.
• 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 technologists, including mentoring and coaching.
• Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willingness 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, able to 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.