Senior Software Engineer (Java)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Java): Building and optimizing backend software for the Loans & Affordability Platform, evolving and digitizing the Retail Bank with an accent on creating, building, supporting, and improving backend software. Focus on designing, building, and testing backend microservices and RESTful APIs using Java 17+ and Spring Framework in an agile environment.

Location: Hybrid, requiring 40% (two days) in office in Chester or Manchester, UK.

Salary: £72,702 – £109,053

Company

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

What you will do

• Work in a forward-thinking and diverse team at the forefront of change for customers & colleagues.
• Drive efforts to create, build, support, and improve backend software.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to ensuring good quality and engineering practices are followed.
• Deepen technical knowledge and understanding in a modern stack.
• Support and lead on developing a quality backend system.

Requirements

• Produce high quality, well-tested and robust code.
• Able to design, build and test backend microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience in Java (17+) and Spring Framework for development.
• Strong experience in Microservice Development using SpringBoot.
• Good experience of containerised services (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
• Good awareness & understanding of Database design.
• Able to create tests and work with pipelines to prove strong and maintainable code.
• Understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Kanban, Jira & Confluence.

Nice to have

• Some experience of JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Devops tooling like Harness.
• Quarkus framework.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive culture, reflecting modern society and celebrating diversity.
• Focus on belonging and enabling people to be their best.
• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.