Backend Software Engineer (Java) | Payments / Financial services

Be | Shaping the Future UK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Be | Shaping the Future UK is seeking experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers to join a technology-driven team serving financial services and payments clients. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native backend services at scale, focusing on reliability and performance.

You will work with Spring Boot, microservices, and distributed systems, delivering customer-facing applications used by thousands of users. Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services, FinTech or Payments environments is essential.
• Experience building customer-facing applications and scalable backend services.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and modern cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance modern software applications and services.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable and reusable code.
• Contribute to microservices-based architectures and distributed systems.
• Support customer-facing applications used by large user populations.
• Improve software quality via automated testing and CI/CD practices.
• Monitor application health, performance and reliability.
• Manage deployments and production environments.
• Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement fixes.

Skills

Spring Boot

Microservices

SQL / NoSQL

Distributed Systems

Backend Engineering

High-scale Applications

Automated Testing

CI/CD

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

3+ years of software engineering experience

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Docker

Job description

We are partnering with a leading technology-driven organisation operating within the Financial Services, FinTech and Payments sector to hire several experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and enhancing customer-facing products used at scale. You'll be involved in designing, developing and operating modern, cloud-based applications, collaborating with product, architecture and engineering colleagues to deliver resilient and scalable solutions.

Experience within Financial Services, FinTech or Payments environments is essential.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, building and enhancing modern software applications and services
• Developing high-quality, maintainable and reusable code
• Contributing to microservices-based architectures and distributed systems
• Building and supporting customer-facing applications used by large user populations
• Driving software quality through automated testing and continuous improvement
• Monitoring application health, performance and operational reliability
• Managing deployments and supporting production environments
• Investigating and resolving production incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes
• Contributing to architectural discussions and solution design
• Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices, delivery processes and system performance
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical technology solutions

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience with Spring Boot and microservices architectures
• Experience building customer-facing applications
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
• Strong backend engineering expertise and a solid understanding of distributed systems
• Experience delivering large-scale applications, ideally supporting 10,000+ users
• A track record of delivering measurable project outcomes and business impact
• Experience operating services in production environments
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Kafka
• AWS
• Docker
• Continuous Delivery practices
• Payments industry experience

Full-Stack Candidates

Whilst backend expertise remains the highest priority, we are also keen to hear from engineers with full-stack experience. Candidates with a combination of Java backend development and React.js frontend development will be considered, particularly where they have strong backend credentials and experience delivering end-to-end solutions.

Successful candidates will typically demonstrate:

• Experience working within Financial Services, FinTech or Payments organisations
• Ownership of systems throughout the software development lifecycle
• Experience supporting live production systems
• A pragmatic approach to software design and architecture
• Evidence of improving systems, processes or engineering practices
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within agile teams

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Typically 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience, or equivalent
• Experience of developing enterprise-scale backend applications

Why Apply?

• Join a highly regarded organisation within the Financial Services and Payments sector
• Modern cloud-native technology environment
• Opportunity to influence architecture, engineering quality and platform evolution