Software Engineer

Icon Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Greater London is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to develop innovative solutions in the real-time payment processing sector. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Java, experience with reactive programming using the Spring framework, and be familiar with Agile methodologies. Responsibilities include hands-on development, contributing to architectural decisions, and optimizing applications for speed and scalability. This role offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working in collaborative agile development teams.
• Demonstrated passion for solving engineering challenges.
• Ability to take ownership and innovate.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of software applications.
• Contributing to architecture and design for solutions.
• Ensuring high quality code with established standards.

Skills

Strong JAVA 11+

Reactive Programming Experience with Spring

Asynchronous request handling

Event sourced/driven solutions

Automation using CI/CD

Agile delivery experience

Real-time messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, JMS)

AKKA or similar reactive framework

Angular 9+

DevOps experience

Docker and Kubernetes knowledge

Unix sys admin and scripting knowledge

MongoDB knowledge

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.
• Previous experience with real-time messaging systems (incl. Kafka and JMS).
• AKKA or other reactive framework.
• Experience with Angular 9+ on front end.
• 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.

About Us

Icon Solutions is a leading specialist provider of services and technology solutions that are simplifying banking transformation.

Icon is the past, present and future of payments. With a proven record delivering mission-critical solutions for global institutions, it is driving the next-generation of banking and payments architecture. Icon combines industry-leading domain experts, services, accelerator assets and technology that empower customers to solve problems, fight complexity and embrace change.

Icon has applied its payments, technical and integration expertise to create IPF: a low-code, cloud-native, open-source technology platform to accelerate payments transformation.

Icon’s clients include leading global banks such as BNP Paribas, HSBC, NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group.