Staff Software Engineer

PowerToFly; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A software company based in Cambridge is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to deliver scalable features and solutions. The role demands collaboration with various teams, providing mentorship to UI engineers, and requires expertise in modern IDEs, distributed systems, and code optimization. You will be instrumental in ensuring technical excellence and encouraging innovation in a hybrid work environment, with three days in the office each week.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing scalable applications with fault tolerance.
• Ability to manage and prioritize workload effectively.
• Experience in technical mentorship and architectural decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Project teams to build features.
• Coordinate the team's investigation of customer concerns.
• Provide mentorship to the team of UI engineers.

Skills

Scalable distributed applications

API integration

Code profiling and performance tuning

Technical mentorship

Security best practices

Tools

Modern IDEs

MongoDB

RabbitMQ

Java 11

Spring Boot

Job description

Job Description

At Featurespace, we strive to be the world’s best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients’ problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile.

The Role

In your role as Staff Software Engineer, you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:

• Collaborating with Product and Project teams to determine, plan, create, and build ARIC features for our clients in a timely and consistent manner.

• Coordinating the team's investigation, escalation, and resolution of customer concerns requiring technical expertise.

• Helping with project coordination, task delegation, and peer review for UI-related projects.

• Providing mentorship tothe team of UI engineers.

Role Responsibilities

As a company we hire people with a willingness to adapt to a variable role, so along with the key responsibilities below, we ask for ownership of any other duties as required.

Technical

• Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code.

• Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues.

• Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team.

• Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them.

Impact

• Consistently delivers significant contributions to projects and codebases.

• Positively influences team outcomes through technical expertise.

• Represents team on projects spanning multiple teams.

• Technical authority on architecture and system design within team.

Behaviour

• Takes ownership of tasks and projects.

• Adapts quickly to new technologies and methodologies.

• Prioritises tasks effectively to balance urgent and important work.

• Communicates team progress against milestones at an appropriate cadence to relevant stakeholders.

• Ensures the work is of high quality and meets department standards.

• Delegates effectively, ensures tasks are completed as specified.

• Makes independent decisions for the team.

This is a hybrid position, with the expectation being 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.

Qualifications

Required experience:

• Knowledge of modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications, including fault tolerance, consistency models, and high availability
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebasesincluding refactoring strategies and techniques
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Knowledge of security best practices
• Root cause analysis of defects and outages
• Experience of technical mentorship, and architectural decision making

Great to have:

• Experience ofrelational and/orNoSQL databasessuch as MongoDBfor large datasets,including query optimization, and indexing strategies
• Web services – HTTP API development- Swagger / OpenAPI
• Message queuing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
• Cloud platforms and automation
• SSO systems such as SAML and OIDC
• Proficiency in modern Java (version 11 or later) and Spring Boot.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.