Real-Time Payments Engineer (Java, Spring, Kafka)

Icon Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Greater London is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to develop innovative solutions in the real-time payment processing sector. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Java, experience with reactive programming using the Spring framework, and be familiar with Agile methodologies. Responsibilities include hands-on development, contributing to architectural decisions, and optimizing applications for speed and scalability. This role offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working in collaborative agile development teams.
• Demonstrated passion for solving engineering challenges.
• Ability to take ownership and innovate.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of software applications.
• Contributing to architecture and design for solutions.
• Ensuring high quality code with established standards.

Skills

Strong JAVA 11+

Reactive Programming Experience with Spring

Asynchronous request handling

Event sourced/driven solutions

Automation using CI/CD

Agile delivery experience

Real-time messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, JMS)

AKKA or similar reactive framework

Angular 9+

DevOps experience

Docker and Kubernetes knowledge

Unix sys admin and scripting knowledge

MongoDB knowledge

Job description

A leading technology firm in Greater London is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to develop innovative solutions in the real-time payment processing sector. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Java, experience with reactive programming using the Spring framework, and be familiar with Agile methodologies. Responsibilities include hands-on development, contributing to architectural decisions, and optimizing applications for speed and scalability. This role offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative environment.