PD I UX Content Writer/Content Designer

Overview

To be successful in the role of Senior Backend Engineer, the incumbent will be able to design and build high quality code, take ownership of projects, design and write tests, manage CI/CD pipelines and production releases, address technical and design requirements and provide mentorship and coaching to other team members. They will also maintain behaviours that emphasise collaboration, problem solving and continuous improvement in line with our values and successfully provide mentorship and coaching to other team members.

Responsibilities

Coding, Quality and Architecture

Deliver high quality, maintainable code

Maintain a codebase and keep frameworks up to date, identify tech debt and improvements proactively

Ensure testing meets any compliance requirements e.g. PI and GDPR

Review and promote new testing tools and techniques

Manage pull request approvals

Apply a risk based approach to assessing all security aspects of a system/application

Follow DevOps best practices and keep up with modern tooling

Able to set architecture direction to integrate new architectural components

On-call support

Continuous improvement & best practice

Follows industry best practices with particular attention to maintainability, reusability, extensibility and clean code

Ensure team adoption of coding, quality, accessibility and secure code standards

Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement

Maintain a test and learn mindset with curiosity, collaboration and care

Collaboration & mentorship

Ability to collaborate across different teams, and across all levels of seniority

Provide coaching and mentoring to other team members

Lead all interactions with trust empathy and clear communication

Lead the team in the absence of the Technical Lead

Actively participate in team collaboration sessions e.g. tech forums, brown bags, strategy meetings

Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

Ability to design, estimate and build high quality and maintainable code

Ability to maintain a codebase and keep frameworks up to date, identify tech debt and improvements proactively

Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Extensive experience crafting and building software using the latest delivery techniques

An understanding of architectural concepts and cloud-based solution design

Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others

Experience working with technical and non-technical partners, with the capability to influence

Able to collaborate across different teams and across all levels of seniority

Strong experience with Java, springboot and RabbitMQ.

Banking/finance experience is favourable but not essential.