Lead Software Engineer

Software Engineer, VP

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You’ll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• Strong backend and cloud engineering expertise with 12+ years of experience in Java (Java 17, Spring Boot, Hibernate), AWS (EKS, networking), Oracle DB, cloud‑native architectures, APIs (Apigee/Tyk), and secure authentication (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS)
• Engineering excellence and reliability leadership including TDD, CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), event‑driven systems (Kafka), JVM performance optimisation, SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), and robust observability using OpenTelemetry with Prometheus/Grafana
• Architecture and collaboration skills to own end‑to‑end system lifecycle, define technical roadmaps, align platforms with business goals, drive continuous improvement through metrics, and support React JS–based front‑end integration
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

14/05/2026

Experience Level

Executive Level