Senior Software Engineer (Banking)

Vallum Associates; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in Sheffield seeks an experienced professional to design and maintain backend REST API services using Python and Golang. Responsibilities include optimizing AWS infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring compliance with audit standards. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in distributed systems and strong skills in DevOps practices. Excellent communication is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience focusing on distributed systems.
• Strong background in software engineering with infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud services and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend REST API services.
• Implement database schema changes with compliance standards.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with teams.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS for efficiency.
• Support live systems by analyzing incidents and bottlenecks.

Skills

Golang

Python

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Database change management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Liquibase

Docker

Terraform

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant backend REST API services along with frontend client using Python, Golang, Docker and Cloud- services.

• Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase, ensuring alignment with compliance and audit standards.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.

• Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.

• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.

• Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.

• Comes from Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.

• 5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.

• Proficient in Golang or Python.

• Experience with Liquibase or similar tools for database change management and version control.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, including cloud- services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization. Experience with other cloud providers such as GCP is desirable.

• Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.

• Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.

• Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.