Senior Staff Software Engineer - Java

Staff Software Engineer

Management Level

F

Equiniti provides comprehensive solutions to support organizations throughout their corporate lifecycle, including managing shareholder engagement, maintaining stock registers, facilitating ownership transfers, enabling shareholder meetings, paying dividends, supporting IPOs, and administering employee equity plans. We are dedicated to revolutionizing shareholder services by developing digital solutions that facilitate dematerialization for issuers and shareholders. 

EQ is a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance, building trust and confidence in every market we serve. Our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Job Summary:

The Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader, passionate about technology, innovation, and collaboration. They continuously design, build, and deliver improvements, creating industry-leading solutions that advance products. They explore new technologies to drive continuous improvement and contribute to departmental strategies, practices, and processes.

Professional Responsibilities

• Adhere to Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM.

• Develop and maintain processes, standards, and best practices for consistent delivery.

• Promote engineering excellence via tools, reviews, and quality gates.

• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to strengthen product competitiveness.

• Foster lifecycle optimisation through knowledge management and continuous learning.

• Mentor engineers, support technical challenges, and build a high-performance culture.

• Support talent pipeline development through hiring, succession planning, and reviews.

• Advocate for reducing technical debt and support prioritisation.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps, product vitality, and architecture documentation.

Technical Responsibilities

• Own technical responsibility across all software development stages.

• Plan and drive construction activities using appropriate methods and tools.

• Monitor adherence to standards, including security.

• Contribute to organisational policies and guidelines for software development.

Education & Experience

• Technical degree (engineering, computer science).

• Preferred: post-graduation in advanced computer science or MBA in Systems.

• Experience in SaaS product engineering and leading product portfolios.

Professional Skills & Qualities

• Agile (Scrum), efficiency improvement, configuration management, release readiness.

• Documentation, process/data/system engineering, lifecycle management, problem solving.

• Emotional intelligence, collaboration, active listening, continuous learning, creativity.

• Resilience, ownership, critical thinking, time management, decision-making.

Technical Skills (Advanced)

• JAVA Full stack development, REST/WCF services, database design, responsive web design.

• Dependency injection, ORM frameworks, unit/integration testing.

• Modern practices: accessibility, microservices, API gateway, messaging.

• Tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFSVC.

• Cloud: Azure, AWS.

• Identity: ADFS, OAuth, Okta, Identity Server.

• Security: principles, SAST/DAST.

• Architecture: containers, CI/CD, deployments.

• Applications: CMS, message queuing, ORM tools, Umbraco, SharePoint.

• Languages/Frameworks: JSON, XML, LINQ, PowerShell, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, T-SQL,).

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• Business related certification expense reimbursement
• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

Experience Level

Senior Level