Software Engineer

Role Overview

Join our client as a Java Engineer responsible for designing and enhancing the backend platforms that drive critical financial services workflows. You will be part of a collaborative engineering team delivering secure, scalable, and dependable systems tailored for regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs based on Java technologies.
• Construct and improve microservices with Spring Boot and modern Java versions.
• Convert business and product requirements into durable technical implementations.
• Create RESTful APIs and manage integration with both internal and external systems.
• Produce clean, maintainable, and well-tested code whilst participating in code reviews.
• Enhance application performance, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Work with relational databases, messaging platforms, and continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
• Resolve production challenges and foster ongoing enhancements.
• Collaborate closely with product management, quality assurance, business analysts, and senior engineering staff.

Qualifications and Skills

• Proven professional experience in Java development, ideally with Java 17 or newer.
• Practical expertise with Spring Framework including Spring Boot and microservices architectures.
• Skilled in designing and implementing REST APIs and backend service integrations.
• Strong grounding in object-oriented programming, design patterns, and writing clean code.
• Hands-on experience using SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git, automated testing methodologies, CI/CD processes, and Agile development practices.
• Analytical problem-solving abilities coupled with a pragmatic and ownership-driven approach.
• Experience in financial services, banking, payments, fintech, or other regulated sectors is a plus but not mandatory.
• Knowledge of trading, payments, risk management, treasury, lending, or post-trade systems is advantageous.

Desirable Additional Skills

• Experience with Kafka or similar event-driven messaging systems.
• Containerization using Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Cloud platform experience such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Expertise in JVM performance tuning, diagnostics, or handling high-volume transactional environments.