Implementation Software Engineer

Icon Solutions Ltd; Wimbledon; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Icon Solutions is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to contribute to the Icon Payments Framework (IPF), delivering real-time payment solutions for clients. You will thrive in collaborative agile teams, taking ownership and innovating to overcome complex challenges.

We expect strong Java 11+ with Spring and hands-on work with AKKA, Kafka/JMS, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD. You will participate in on-call rotations and drive quality through TDD/BDD and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Proven Java 11+ with Spring experience in distributed systems.
• Background in asynchronous request handling and high availability.
• Experience with event-sourced/driven solutions and real-time messaging.
• Automation using CI/CD and agile delivery in Kanban/Scrum.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of IPF-based applications for clients.
• Lead design discussions and contribute to coding standards.
• Apply TDD/BDD practices and maintain quality.
• Participate in client delivery lifecycle per requirements.
• Triage issues and handover to IPF support and customers.
• Help build IPF knowledgebase and coach customers.
• Work with real-time messaging systems (Kafka/JMS).
• Utilise AKKA or other reactive frameworks.
• Automate environment provisioning with Ansible.
• Maintain DevOps in transactional software environments.

Skills

Java

Spring

Event-driven

Akka

CI/CD

Agile delivery

On-call readiness

Kanban/Scrum

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Unix scripting

Kafka

JMS

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer from a project engineering background ideally working with asynchronous, event driven systems to assist in the successful delivery of a market-leading solution for real-time payment processing to clients.

The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.

About You

Successful candidates will have proven experience working effectively within highly collaborative agile development teams. You should be able to demonstrate a passion for engineering effective solutions to complex challenges. We are looking for self-starters, who can readily take ownership and continually strive to innovate. Additionally, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Strong JAVA 11+ skills with Spring framework and surrounding technologies.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling Building for high availability/resilient distributed systems.
• Experience of event sourced/driven solutions.
• Experience in automation using Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment processes.
• Agile delivery experience e.g. working in Kanban/Scrum delivery environment and associated tools (e.g. Jira/Confluence).
• Willingness to be on the Level 4 on call support rota (1 week in 4).

What Do Our Implementation Software Engineers Do?

Our Software Engineers are responsible for hands-on development of IPF based applications with our clients, working at pace adhering to Kanban values to resolve high impact, challenging, engineering problems while continuously raising quality standards. Using Java, AKKA and Spring, leading projects, contributing to required aspects of the development lifecycle as per client needs.

• Play a key role in product engineering, following TDD and BDD processes.
• Knowledge of document-based data stories e.g. MongoDB.
• Writing high-quality code within established development standards and patterns.
• Contributing to design decisions and technical discussions as part of the engineering team.
• Own Engineering deliverables within client delivery and sharing IPF best practices.
• Triage client development and implementation issues, providing handover to IPF support and client education where required.
• Help to develop IPF client knowledgebase and work with customers to coach and support.
• Previous experience with real-time messaging systems (incl. Kafka and JMS).
• AKKA or other reactive framework.
• Automation environment provisioning using Ansible.
• DevOps experience gained within highly transactional software environments.
• Knowledge and/or experience of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Unix sys admin and scripting.

About Us

Icon Solutions is a leading specialist provider of services and technology solutions that are simplifying banking transformation.

Icon is the past, present and future of payments. With a proven record delivering mission-critical solutions for global institutions, it is driving the next-generation of banking and payments architecture. Icon combines industry-leading domain experts, services, accelerator assets and technology that empower customers to solve problems, fight complexity and embrace change.

Icon has applied its payments, technical and integration expertise to create IPF: a low-code, cloud-native, open-source technology platform to accelerate payments transformation.

Icon’s clients include leading global banks such as BNP Paribas, HSBC, NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group.