Lead Software Engineer - Cards Platform (Tech Lead)

Lloyd's; Chester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Chester is seeking a skilled software engineer to join their Cards Engineering Team. This role involves crafting software for their Internet Banking system, where you'll lead a team and be responsible for delivering resilient, testable systems. Ideal candidates have strong expertise in Java, React, and an understanding of cloud-native applications. The organization offers competitive benefits including up to 15% pension contribution and 30 days annual leave.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience working with at least two of preferred development languages.
• Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle.
• Provide clear technical direction and lead a feature team.
• Work with the wider product and engineering group to deliver solutions.
• Champion new tooling and solutions design.
• Participate in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies using JIRA.

Skills

Java 17+

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

JIRA

CI/CD

Docker

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Tools

Jest

Enzyme

React Testing Library

Pact

Cypress

Playwright

Github

Harness

Jenkins

ELK

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

A leading financial institution in Chester is seeking a skilled software engineer to join their Cards Engineering Team. This role involves crafting software for their Internet Banking system, where you'll lead a team and be responsible for delivering resilient, testable systems. Ideal candidates have strong expertise in Java, React, and an understanding of cloud-native applications. The organization offers competitive benefits including up to 15% pension contribution and 30 days annual leave.