Senior Software Engineer - Back Office - Java/Spring.

  • java
  • permanent
  • London

Recruiting for Mid and Senior Software Engineer for our Fortune 500 Fintech client who are going through a seriously exciting technical transition

Java/Spring Senior Software Engineer who has financial servcies/back office experience

We need Java/Spring engineers to work with our commodities team within Oils Trading to drive efficiency through technology modernisation.

You will be part of a talented engineering team that works on low-latency mission-critical applications. Roles and responsibilities include application architecture and development across full software development lifecycle from concept and design to testing, collaborating with like-minded engineers.

Up to 70-105K plus 20% bonus Benefits include… 10% pension, generous Share options and the usual private medical, gym, etc.

Our client has a Comprehensive product offering, Strong relationships with clients,

Experienced management team, Global reach and Innovative technology

The successful Software engineers responsibilities will include:

  • Contribute across all phases of the development lifecycle working within Agile methodology
  • Write well designed, testable, efficient code
  • Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
  • Prepare and produce releases of software components
  • Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
  • Mentor and supports engineers with technical direction and best practices

The ideal successful software engineer should have skills and experience in the below:

  • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
  • Experience within the Financial services, ideally knowledge of commodities and back-office functions
  • Proven hands-on experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Java/Spring in real-time, low latency environments is a must.
  • Experiance with Nodejs.
  • Proven hands-on experience developing distributed systems using Microservice architecture (event-based)
  • Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure)
  • Exposure with distributed messaging / streaming platforms (Apache Kafka)
  • Experience with TDD/BDD, testing framework (Junit/Mockito/TestContainers/Jest/React-testing-library)
  • Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases SQL and No-SQL databases
  • Desirable to have experience building large scalable web-based applications using React (ideal)/Angular with Typescript

The team are based out of Moorgate and we have been asked to set expectations around hybrid working at 3 days per week on site but there is definitely flexibility on this, however we have to state this role is not offered fully remote.

Sophie Tugby