Senior Software Engineer

Icon Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Icon Solutions, located in Greater London, is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with a solid product engineering background. You will be pivotal in delivering a cutting-edge solution for real-time payment processing, working hands-on to solve complex challenges.

The ideal candidate should have strong JAVA skills, experience with asynchronous systems, and a background in Agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum. A willingness to participate in on-call support is also required.

Qualifications

• Experience in high availability/resilient distributed systems.
• Hands-on development of software applications.
• Previous experience with real-time messaging systems (incl. Kafka and JMS).

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in product engineering, following TDD and BDD.
• Writing high quality code within established development standards.
• Contributing to design decisions and technical discussions.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Skills

Strong JAVA 11+ skills

Reactive Programming Experience with Spring

Understanding of asynchronous request handling

Experience of event sourced/driven solutions

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment processes

Agile delivery experience (Kanban/Scrum)

Fluent in Spanish

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

MongoDB

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer from a product engineering background ideally working with asynchronous, event driven systems to assist in the successful delivery of a market-leading solution for real-time payment processing.

The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.

About You:

Successful candidates will have proven experience working effectively within highly collaborative agile development teams. You should be able to demonstrate a passion for engineering effective solutions to complex challenges. We are looking for self‑starters, who can readily take ownership and continually strive to innovate. Additionally you should have the following skills and experience:

• Strong JAVA 11+ skills and Reactive Programming Experience with the Spring framework and technologies.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling Building for high availability/resilient distributed systems.
• Experience of event sourced/driven solutions.
• Experience in automation using Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment processes.
• Agile delivery experience e.g. working in Kanban/Scrum delivery environment and associated tools (e.g. Jira/Confluence).
• Willingness to be on the Level 4 on call support rota (1 week in 4).

What do our Engineers do?

Our Software Engineers are responsible for hands‑on development of software applications, working at pace adhering to Kanban values to resolve high impact, challenging engineering problems while continuously raising quality standards. Using Java, AKKA and Spring, our Engineers will contribute to all aspects of the architecture and design for this innovative solution.

• Play a key role in product engineering, following TDD and BDD processes.
• Writing high quality code within established development standards and patterns.
• Contributing to design decisions and technical discussions as part of the engineering team.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Fluent in Spanish
• Previous experience with real‑time messaging systems (incl. Kafka and JMS).
• AKKA or other reactive framework.
• Experience with Angular 9+ on front end.
• Automation environment provisioning using Ansible.
• DevOps experience gained within highly transactional software environments.
• Knowledge and/or experience of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Unix sys admin and scripting.
• Knowledge of document-based data stories e.g. MongoDB.