Senior Java Engineer with Technical Ownership

Elavon; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment solutions provider is seeking a Senior Java Developer for a hybrid role in London. The ideal candidate will drive technical responsibility and work within a team to deliver effective solutions. Key skills include extensive Java experience, deep understanding of Agile processes, and the ability to reduce technical debt. This position offers a flexible work schedule, requiring in-office work for 3+ days a week.

Benefits

Diverse working environment

Health and financial security benefits

Career development resources

Qualifications

• Experience in large organisations with demonstrable skills in collaboration.
• Extensive experience with Java, both monolithic and microservices.
• Ability to create and maintain automated testing suites.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evaluation of tools, technology, and best practices.
• Support innovation by bringing ideas to life.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff.

Skills

Cross team collaboration

Java

Spring Boot

DevOps capabilities

Agile methodologies

Payments experience

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Jenkins

GIT

Maven

Gradle

JUnit

Mockito

Job description

Job Description

Senior Java Developer with Technical Ownership

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 mixed role which includes technical responsibility for the platform and active development on it.

Responsibilities / Qualities

• Experience working in large organisations with demonstrableskills of cross team collaboration

• Recent experience in product and compliance management

• 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

• 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

• Payments experience

• 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.