Senior Software Developer

Webexpenses; Witney; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global FinTech company is seeking a Senior Software Developer to enhance integrations with AWS and Java. This role involves mentoring, working with RESTful APIs, and development within a collaborative team. The successful candidate will enjoy hybrid work and competitive benefits including private medical insurance and study days.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Additional day off for birthday

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Demonstrable competence in Java, preferably Java 8+.
• Experience designing and building scalable applications.
• Strong commitment to writing clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, secure, and reliable integrations.
• Work with RESTful APIs and AWS services.
• Mentor other developers and uphold code quality.

Skills

Solid understanding of the SaaS model

Proven experience in Java

Deep understanding of core AWS services

Building RESTful APIs

Experience with SQL databases

Excellent analytical skills

Strong communication skills

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Software Developer (Integrations)

Location: Commutable to Witney (OX28)

Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience + plus benefits

We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented senior software developer to join a dedicated integrations team, working throughout the full product development lifecycle.

Webexpenses is a global FinTech company and we were one of the first companies to bring SaaS applications to the market, disrupting how organisations handle employee expenses. Headquartered in the UK we have offices in Australia, clients in over 70 countries and over 300,000 users of our software. As we continue to grow, now is an exciting time to be joining our team.

Private equity backed, you'll be joining us at an exciting time as we continue to grow our business and develop our people.

In this role you will be working within a collaborative and agile team, leveraging our existing integration framework to connect to a wide range of external services and partners. You will tackle complex technical challenges and play a key role in expanding the capabilities and reach of Webexpenses.

As a senior Developer you will not only write high-quality code but also mentor other developers, influence our technical direction, work with other development teams, and implement scalability and reliability into our integration framework.

In addition to this you will need to keep up to date with the latest technologies and industry trends, you will regularly tackle new, intriguing technical challenges and devise elegant solutions.

In this role you will:

• Architect and develop scalable, secure, and reliable integrations.
• Work extensively with RESTful APIs, webhooks, and other integration patterns.
• Leverage AWS services, with a strong focus on AWS Lambdas.
• Work with UI developers to develop and maintain user-facing features.
• Uphold and promote high standards for code quality.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other developers.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues related to third-party integrations.
• Work closely with product managers, and other engineering teams to define integration requirements.

To be considered for this exciting role candidates will have demonstrable competence in the majority of the following technologies:

Essential:

• Solid understanding of the SaaS model in the online environment.
• Proven experience in designing and building scalable, and maintainable applications using Java. (Java 8+, with experience or a strong desire to work with Java 21).
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with core AWS services, including AWS Lambdas, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, Aurora.
• Solid understanding of and experience with building and consuming RESTful APIs and associated authentication.
• Experience with SQL databases including Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
• A strong commitment to writing clean, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Technical design and documentation skills.
• Attention to detail and a genuine interest in technological trends.

Desirable:

• Experience in the FinTech industry.
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies such as Docker.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging queues.

In return we offer:

• Ongoing learning and development including study days.
• A range of benefits including 25 days holiday (rising to 26 days), an additional day off on your birthday, private medical insurance, group life cover, retail discount scheme, EAP scheme and volunteering days.
• This is a full time, permanent role. We offer hybrid working, spending 50% of the time in the office or a fully remote role; but you must be able to travel to our Witney (OX28) office from time to time.

This position is based in the UK and candidates must therefore have the legal right to live and work the UK.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Webexpenses is an equal opportunities employer, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to join our team. Key to this role is an awareness of data privacy and security as you will be dealing with sensitive employee data in accordance with our security policies.