Senior Java Engineer | Hybrid Banking Tech, Mentoring

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

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.