Java Software Engineer IRC303862

GlobalLogic; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness plan

Private healthcare

Gym memberships

In-office yoga sessions and massages

Competitive pension scheme

Volunteer day

Social events

Job summary

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, invites you to join a permanent feature team building our real-time banking platform. You’ll explore the platform across business, applications, data, and infrastructure while liaising with principal engineers and architects to align with business goals.

You’ll apply Agile methods to software development on the backlog, deliver resilient software, and drive automation of build, test and deployment activities using executable patterns.

Qualifications

• You will design, produce, test and implement working software across the system lifecycle.
• Develop and advance software engineering skills in this critical role.
• Join us as a Software Engineer and contribute to the platform across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud-native services with Spring Boot and Kafka.
• Design robust, scalable distributed systems with a focus on reliability.
• Practice continuous deployment and automated testing across the lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Kafka

Java/Spring Boot

Resilient service design

CD/CI practices

Tools

Spring Boot

Job description

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data, and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You’ll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

Requirements

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

Skills required: Kafka, Java/Spring Boot microservices, resilient service design patterns, and continuous deployment practices.

Job responsibilities

We’re looking for someone to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You’ll bring strong experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments.
You’ll have experience building and operating cloud native services using technologies such as Spring Boot, with automation as a core engineering principle.

You’ll be comfortable designing and delivering robust, scalable and resilient distributed systems, with a strong focus on reliability, observability and operational excellence. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial

You’ll also need:

• Strong experience building robust, resilient, and defensively coded distributed systems, ideally leveraging technologies such as Kafka and an understanding of designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale, including versioning, observability, monitoring, and forward, backward compatibility
• Experience with event-driven architectures, both orchestrated and choreographed, is expected
• Experience working effectively in teams that value autonomy and empowerment, where engineering excellence is aligned to product outcomes
• Strong experience operating in distributed, cloud native environments with complex failure modes, requiring thoughtful approaches to system design and assurance
• Proven ability to coach and mentor other engineers, supporting the growth and capability of the wider team

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What we offer

Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences - providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career. Our region supports a hybrid model that can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by business, customer and individual needs.

You’ll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), discounted gym memberships, and in office yoga sessions and massages. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day - so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social with trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more.

We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and we actively welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for this vacancy.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments. If you require any adjustments for the application process, the interview, or the job itself, or if you need this information in an accessible format, please contact [e-mail] .

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution - helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.