Software Engineer (9 month Fixed Term Contract)
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Posted on:
15 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the role:
Crown Agents Bank (CAB) is hiring developers that are looking to engineer state-of-the-art financial systems. CAB is currently investing in technology growth and change driven by business growth. This is leading to new revenue streams and product capabilities including new integrations to support greater volume and changes to the platforming in AWS. This dictates an interesting and varied pipeline of work. Successful candidates will be working at the cutting edge of software and financial engineering. We look for people with excellent collaboration skills and up to date technical skills.
Youll be part of a software engineering team within the FX and cross-border payments business working closely with architects Business Analysts and Product Managers. The teams provide software engineering and product development building out platforms using Java Kotlin and Python using a range of event processing and message flow technologies. Microservices hosted in AWS provide a range of interfaces with payments direct to banks or over Swift protocols. Datastores use PostgreSQL with a React UI. New technologies techniques and AWS services will be required as we adapt.
The Roles Responsibilities:
- Design and implement new solutions.
- Seek to deliver performant and reliable products.
- Consider operational costs observability and support capabilities.
- Take an active part in design and architectural discussions.
- Own your tasks and be proud of your deliveries and work.
- Use Test-Driven Development among other techniques to maintain high quality code.
- Help with cross team discussions and support other teams to work with your products.
- Work with and seek to improve technical standards.
- Take a delivery and quality balanced approach.
Qualifications :
- 3 Years of experience in software development
- Experience designing and building scalable high-quality systems focused on distributed and low-latency processing using modern cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with Java and/or Kotlin and Spring Boot.
- A solid grasp of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
- Experience with Event-driven architecture.
- Strong understanding and experience with containerized applications running in a cloud environment usilising resources such as AWS ECS and/or EKS.
- Knowledge of software best practices like code reviews Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Useful but not essential:
- Experience in Web UI/ visualisation technologies like HTML5 JavaScript and is pos
- Experience with Python.
- Knowledge of the Axon framework.
- Infrastructure deployments using Terraform.
Additional Information :
- 9 month fixed term contract
- Hybrid working
- Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
- Life Assurance 4 times annual salary
- Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical Dental and Audiology
- Discretionary Bonus
- Competitive Annual Leave
- 2 Volunteering Days
- Benefit Hub
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- IVR
- SOAP
- Avaya
- Solaris
- Cost Accounting Standards
- Database Design
- Hibernate
- ITIL
- Weblogic
- Express.js
- Contracts
- ASP
About Company
Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to t ... View more
