Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Java, Fintech): Building and optimizing a brand-new digital stockbroking platform with an accent on HTTP API design, backend microservices, and scalability. Focus on solving complex concurrency challenges, ensuring system reliability under heavy traffic, and integrating cloud-native solutions.

Location: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Leeds office

Salary: £48,987 - £54,430

Company

hirify.global is rebooting an icon and building the future of finance.

What you will do

• Join the Stockbroking Lab's engineering team and enhance the future platform proposition.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, architects, and stakeholders to deliver features and functionality.
• Develop and deliver HTTP API services for a new Stockbroking application.
• Work in line with good engineering guidelines and contribute to their development.

Requirements

• Proven experience building backend RESTful APIs in Java.
• Experience with Backend Microservices and frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Ability to develop high quality, testable, re-usable, and modular code with modern Java versions, Spring Boot/Quarkus, Maven, and Kafka.
• Understanding of Clean Code, SOLID principles, Domain Driven Design, and TDD.
• Proficiency with GIT, source code management, and managing concurrent change on large code bases.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD across the SDLC using CI tooling.
• Working with large-scale applications developed with high performance in mind.
• Experience using distributed systems, and ideally asynchronous programming techniques and event driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Cloud native solutions (GCP) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Nice to have

• Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth).
• Greenfield development experience.
• Delivering large scale data migrations (500k+ customers).
• Expertise in GCP, Quarkus, Kubernetes, and Harness.

Culture & Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Flexible benefits package with discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Commitment to an inclusive environment that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity.