Senior Backend Engineer

About You:

– Excellent programming skills

– At least 5 years experience developing in Java (Springboot or Dropwizard frameworks) & NodeJS in the industry

– At least 5 years experience developing with MongoDB or MySQL

– Strong affinity for technical design, testing and system architecture

– Experience working with containers

– Excellent problem-solving skills

– Strong System Architecture Design skills

– Knowledge of fundamental computing topics, e.g. networking, databases, concurrency, parallelism, locking, algorithms, data structures, performance monitoring, optimisation, etc

– Knowledge of modern software engineering practises, e.g DDD, TDD

– Ability to work autonomously and lead technically

– Ability to take initiative and get stuff done

– Great communication skills

About the Position:

– Architect, design and develop mobile products.

– Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing mobile services.

– Manage Junior Engineers, providing mentoring, code reviews, architectural design etc..

– Perform performance review on direct reports and report details to line manager.

– Take full responsibility for products while they are in development and issues that arise when they are in use.

– You will work across different technology stacks and languages (mainly with a focus on Java and NodeJS);

– You will have an end to end responsibility of many services from design to deployment;

– You will join fast-paced team of engineers

– You will be a point of call for technical matters

Nice to have:

– Knowledge of  Rust or Python

– Experience working in financial services

– Excellent communication skills – verbal & oral

– Approachable – easily approachable for others to discuss challenges with you