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Hybrid

GBP 75,000 - 95,000

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Job summary

A leading fintech startup in London is seeking a Principal Java Developer to join their innovative team. The role involves designing low latency software solutions and contributing to a cutting-edge product roadmap. The position offers competitive pay, flexible hours, and a vibrant team culture with great growth opportunities.

Benefits

5% matched pension
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Private health care
Income protection
Learning and Development budget
Modern office environment

Qualifications

  • Experience with Java 17 and Spring Boot is crucial.
  • Desirable knowledge in ML/Big Data and messaging systems like Kafka.
  • Ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop low latency software components.
  • Contribute across the entire SDLC.
  • Setup and maintain development process tools.

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
AWS
Microservices
Kafka

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Principal Java Developer- London/Hybrid- up to £95k

This is a Principal Java Engineer position with an innovative and light footed fintech startup/scaleup company who are on a mission to revolutionise the credit and lending space. The brand, who have now been running for the last 10 years and backed by VC investment, are looking to hire a Principal Engineer to work on an exciting Product roadmap over the coming years.

This role is a hybrid position based in central London. They are looking for people that are willing to come to their office 3 days per week, there may have a bit of flexibility on this and very flexible hours.

Tech Stack:

  • Java 17
  • Spring Boot
  • AWS
  • Microservices
  • ML/ Big Data- desirable
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Messaging - Kafka

Responsibilities:

  • Design and development of low latency software components
  • Contribute across the entire SDLC
  • Write and enhance well structured, testable, scalable and efficient code
  • Setup and maintain development process tools
  • Collaborate in agile development process meetings, stand ups, sprint panning, retrospectives and foster collaboration
  • Mentor more junior engineers
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams
  • Champion best practice

Projects:

  • Migration from some monolithic architecture to microservices
  • Migration from java 11 to java 17
  • Migration to new versions of Vaadin
  • Brand new lender platform and payment systems for their customers

Cultural fit:

  • Super collaborative
  • Process light and the Senior Engineers are able to introduce ideas and have autonomy to drive change
  • Looking for self starters, pragmatic engineers that will be accustomed to working in a start up/scale up

This is a brilliant role for someone that wants to play a big part in the growth of a team and a business, where their voice is heard and ideas are shared. The successful Principal Engineer will get the opportunity to work on a trail blazing fintech product with a great bunch of people, with no red tape or bureaucracy.

Salary is up to £95k plus a competitive benefits package which includes 5% matched pension (salary sacrifice), 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, private health care, income protection, super flexible hours, L&D budget, a modern and state of the art office with lots of socials and an outstanding Engineering Leader who has a history of building high performing teams and growth of individuals.

These guys have impressive growth plans for the coming years so its a great time to join, if this sounds like you then please click apply now!

Senior Java Developer- London/Hybrid- up to £95k

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