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Software Engineer

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Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer to spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

Purpose of the role To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

  • Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
  • Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
  • Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organisation’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
  • Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
  • Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

  • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
  • Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with Microservices, Spring Boot, REST APIs, event-driven architecture (Kafka/SQS).
  • AWS Mandatory , proven AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
  • OpenShift Experience deploying and managing workloads on OpenShift/Kubernetes.
  • AI Tools Advanced knowledge of AI-powered development tools and their integration into SDLC.
  • Languages Java (primary), Python (advantageous).
  • Platform Engineering Solid understanding of application platforms, service mesh, observability, and SRE practices.
  • Agile Strong Agile/SAFe delivery experience.

Benefits No benefits mentioned.

Skills

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Nice to have

  • Cards
  • Payments
  • Financial Services platforms
  • AWS certifications
  • Strategic Technology Leadership
  • Engineering Excellence
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