Senior Java Engineer — Core Settlement Systems

Bank of England; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Discretionary performance award

8% benefits allowance

26 days annual leave (buy up to 12)

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Bank of England in Leeds seeks a senior Java engineer to own and operate core settlement services in RTGS Technology. You will write Java, test thoroughly, and contribute to code reviews while ensuring production reliability and on-call readiness.

You’ll join a team delivering high-availability settlement processing and governance in a critical national infrastructure. The role embraces flexible working within a hybrid model.

Qualifications

• Good Java engineering experience building and supporting backend services.
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, PL/SQL).
• Experience with distributed systems, service-to-service interactions or event-driven patterns (e.g. Kafka).
• Familiarity with container platforms (e.g. OpenShift).
• Experience working with live systems, including troubleshooting and debugging issues.
• A solid testing discipline (unit and integration testing).
• Understanding of how software behaves in production (failure modes, recovery, operational risk).

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Java-based settlement services, taking ownership of the work you pick up and seeing it through from implementation to production.
• Write clean, well-tested code - with unit, integration, and component tests as a natural part of delivery, not an afterthought.
• Take part in code reviews - contributing feedback and applying the same discipline to your own code.
• Engage with solution designs and technical direction, applying your own engineering judgement to implementation and raising concerns before they become problems.
• Support production services - participating in on-call, helping to diagnose and resolve incidents, and ensuring issues lead to real improvements.
• Develop your understanding of how the services you work on behave under load, failure, and recovery scenarios.
• Work within change management and governance processes appropriate for a regulated, high-availability environment.

Skills

Java

Backend services

Production support

Code reviews

Tools

Oracle

PL/SQL

Kafka

OpenShift

Testing frameworks

Job description

Bank of England in Leeds seeks a senior Java engineer to own and operate core settlement services in RTGS Technology. You will write Java, test thoroughly, and contribute to code reviews while ensuring production reliability and on-call readiness.

You’ll join a team delivering high-availability settlement processing and governance in a critical national infrastructure. The role embraces flexible working within a hybrid model.