Senior Java Engineer

Elavon; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology provider is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join its team. The role involves executing full-cycle development and testing, leading technical improvements, and enhancing efficiency. Candidates should have extensive Java experience, familiarity with microservices, and strong DevOps skills. This position offers a hybrid work schedule with 3 or more days in the office per week and is designed for those who thrive in collaborative environments.

Benefits

Health benefits

Career development resources

Flexible working environment

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with enterprise applications and cloud, microservice platforms.
• Ability to maintain complex automated testing suites.
• Strong grasp of industry standards and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation of ideas, tools, and technology standards.
• Support innovation and help bring ideas to life.
• Coach and mentor technical staff.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microsoft SQL Server

DevOps capabilities

Agile methodologies

Containerization

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Overview

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description

Senior Java Engineer

The Agile Software Developer will execute end-to-end development and testing of software products in an agile lifecycle. Partnering with key technical and business stakeholders, the agile developer will help refine the product vision, estimate, design and build a solution before supporting it into production.

You will be expected to lead by example working within the team and boosting their ability to deliver business requirements while improving core engineering and reducing technical debt.

This is a hands-on role involving a large amount of coding and problem solving.

Required

• Java – Extensive experience working with both large enterprise monolithic applications and modern cloud, micro service platforms
• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JSP, Dropwizard, Maven, Gradle, Tomcat, Jetty, Junit, Mockito
• Database
• Microsoft SQL Server/Service Broker, TSQL, RDS
• Functional and Nonfunctional testing experience - ability to create and maintain complex automated testing suites for modern and legacy application
• DevOps capabilities
• Containers, cloud, automation, security, configuration management, CI/CD
• Continuous Integration – Jenkins (declarative and containerised pipelines), GIT
• Experience working with Agile processes and methodologies

Nice to have

• Payments experience

Responsibilities / Qualities

• Lead the evaluation of ideas, tools, technology, standards and best practice
• Support innovation by acting as a sounding board for ideas and help bring them to life
• Actively engage in tracking and reducing technical debt
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with wider Opayo team
• Strong grasp of industry standards, best practices and design patterns
• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment
• Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff

Location

The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule, which means there\'s an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.