Senior Java Engineer

My Finance Club; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online challenger bank in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer for a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week office attendance in London. The position involves hands-on development, mentoring, and driving technical architecture in a cutting-edge environment. The role demands 5+ years of experience in Java development, specifically with microservices and cloud solutions like AWS. This is a unique chance to shape the future of banking technology within a dynamic start-up culture.

Qualifications

• Strong desire to work in a start-up / scale-up environment.
• Problem solver with high standards of professionalism.
• Comfortable mentoring colleagues and leading from the front.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development and mentoring other developers.
• Driving code review processes.
• Defining technical architecture and integration requirements.

Skills

5+ years commercial or similar experience

Architected, designed, and led development of a microservices solution using Spring Boot

Experience of Docker and AWS (ideally EventBridge & SQS)

Experience of implementing RESTful web services

Experience of unit testing using Junit, mocking frameworks and integration testing

Experience of deploying into and using AWS services including VPC, EC2, RDS, API Gateway

Experience of deploying and using industry standard development tools including Swagger, Jenkins

Job description

Senior Java Engineer

London

Salary : £70,000 - 80,000

Bonus : TBC

This is a hybrid role that requires 3 days a week office attendance

About the Company

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Java Engineer to be part of a highly innovative forward thinking online challenger bank start-up funded by a major fund. You will be based remotely and from our London office

You will be joining a small but experienced team building up the functionality of a bespoke best-of-breed banking technology, a single platform delivering loan issue, card issue and recovery.

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Java Engineer who will work closely with the Java Team Lead & CTO as we scale up and modernise our business processes and tech stack.

The role includes hands‑on development, mentoring other developers, driving code review processes as well as working with the CTO to define the technical architecture and integration requirements for the solution.

This is a great opportunity for a leading edge, innovative, high‑class Java developer to enter the company at a time when you can make your mark on the development of the company and contribute to the quality work that has already been created.

Key Skill Requirements

• 5+ years commercial or similar experience
• Architected, designed, and led development of a microservices solution using Spring Boot
• Experience of Docker and AWS (ideally EventBridge & SQS)
• Experience of implementing RESTful web services
• Experience of unit testing using Junit, mocking frameworks and integration testing
• Experience of deploying into and using AWS services including VPC, EC2, RDS, API Gateway
• Experience of deploying and using industry standard development tools including Swagger, Jenkins

About You

You will have a strong desire to work in a start-up / scale-up environment with a delivery focused approach to problem solving.

You will be a born problem solver, keen to dig into the technology supporting our business and demonstrating high standards of professionalism and integrity throughout the working day.

You will be equally comfortable mentoring colleagues through technical detail as well as rolling your sleeves up and leading from the front.

Please inform us if you have a disability that will require any reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process or job role.