Senior Software Engineer

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their payment solutions. The role involves working in a hybrid setting, developing cloud-based applications with a strong focus on SWIFT and Payments. Candidates should possess solid experience in the software development lifecycle and have excellent problem-solving and teamwork abilities. The firm offers competitive salary packages along with a generous pension and various wellbeing initiatives.

Benefits

Annual performance-related bonus

Generous pension contribution

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Discounted shopping benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with International SWIFT and Payments integration.
• Knowledge in bespoke solution configuration for Payment production.
• Ability to drive defect management with 3rd party suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and implementing production changes.
• Ensure solutions meet necessary requirements.
• Lead teams in cloud projects, preferably GCP.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

Problem-solving skills

Teamwork

Agile development practices

Cloud project leadership

DevOps toolchains

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

GIT

Job description

• Payments Services Platform SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000 LOCATION(S): Birmingham or Edinburgh HOURS: [Full-time] WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Birmingham or Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity… We're looking to recruit a Senior Software Engineer to work in our International & CHAPS Lab providing payment options for all of our customers.

Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP). This product is being used to deliver key revenue streams as well as enable mandatory compliance.

What follows is what you might find our Software Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team's needs, and your own aspirations.

Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

About us… Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving.

Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers.

We're growing with purpose.

Join us on our journey and you will too… How you'll make a difference… You'll be an experienced Software Engineer preferably with International SWIFT and Payments experience with previous knowledge of integrating, introducing, and supporting 3rd Party packages, including bespoke solution configuration and rules-based engineering into a Payments production environment.

You'll have all-around knowledge of the software development lifecycle, ideally within a modern Agile engineering function.

You'll have good communication & teamwork skills You'll have good Problem-solving skills within a technical environment.

You'll be able to work with 3rd party supplier to drive defect management You'll be able to support planning and implementing production changes Ensuring solutions meet the necessary requirements.

Experience of leading teams in Cloud projects (GCP preferred) Experience of DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Harness), container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio) and cloud technologies (GDP, OCP) A deep understanding of GIT source code management and managing change into production Experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation and how to deliver well maintainable and testable applications in critical environments.

About working for us… Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We are disability confident.

So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes… A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus Share schemes including free shares.

Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping. 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.

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