Senior Java Software Engineer - Featurespace

Visa; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services company in Gloucester is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer to collaborate with teams on new feature development and maintain existing code. The ideal candidate should have demonstrable software engineering experience, proficiency in Java, and a solid understanding of agile methodologies. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, resolving customer issues, and driving technical initiatives. This role is pivotal to ensuring high-quality software delivery and contributing to a positive team atmosphere.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a software engineering position.
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload.
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications.
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment.
• External API integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members to develop new features.
• Support resolution of customer issues.
• Lead significant portions of projects.
• Mentor less experienced engineers.
• Drive technical initiatives and resolve critical bugs.

Skills

Java software development

Agile methodologies

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Tools

Modern IDEs

Source control

Continuous integration systems

Job description

In your role as Senior Java Software Engineer you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with team members to develop new features and maintain the existing Java code base to support the ARIC UI
• Supporting the teams' efforts to ensure software dependencies remain up-to-date and vulnerability free
• Supporting the team's investigation and resolution of customer issues, including leading coordination where necessary
• Providing Java and agile software development expertise
• Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code
• Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues
• Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team
• Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them
• Leads significant portions of projects and makes impactful contributions
• Capable of driving technical initiatives and leading resolution of critical bugs
• Identifies solutions to larger problems with assistance from peers
• Takes part in the process of interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding within their team
• Takes full ownership of projects and ensures success
• Regularly mentors other engineers, particularly those less experienced than themselves
• Able to support onboarding of new engineers into their team
• Proactively seeks and gives timely, actionable feedback in their team
• Promotes good practices and helps other engineers deepen their knowledge
• Confidence in judgement and design making, pulls in support from around the company where needed

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a software engineering position
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning

Great to Have

• Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases for large datasets
• Cloud platforms and automation

At Featurespace, we strive to be the world's best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients' problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile.