Principal Developer

• Auto Rek is a financial data management platform enabling companies to streamline and automate complex and high-volume data management and controls processes
• Our customers range from innovative Fin Tech start-ups to many of the UK and the world’s largest and established banks, asset managers and insurance companies
• Digital data and financial transaction volumes are growing exponentially, this combined with increasing regulatory obligations is driving the demand for improved efficiencies, better control, and management of risk across the financial services industry
• The Auto Rek platform meets these demands and more and that is why we continue to be a leading player in the market
• Support a team of Senior, L2, and L1 Developers in their development and goals
• Provide individual team members with support and guidance in their roles and the tasks that they undertake
• Drive and develop best practices
• Line management
• Implementing & Testing the Auto Rek core financial management solution
• Review and sign off solution designs
• Direct project build team and oversee build effort
• Ownership of defect triage and defect management through the acceptance testing phase
• Act as first line of escalation outside of project for technical issues
• Lead peer reviews
• Tech Stack You’ll Work With:
• MS SQL
• SSRS / Power BI
• Low-code configuration tools
• Data querying and manipulation
• SQL performance tuning

• Time Off:
  We offer a 26 day annual leave package, plus public holidays based on your office location (Scotland, England, or the US). You can also enjoy your birthday off on us! And if you'd like some more time to relax or explore you can buy up to 5 extra annual leave days, each year.
• Plan For Your Future:
  We help you save for the future in a way that works best for you. Through our salary exchange pension scheme, your contributions are taken before tax, making it a more efficient way to plan for your retirement.
• Health and Wellbeing:
  We provide private healthcare and a hospital cash plan that covers you, your partner and dependants. You'll also have group life insurance for extra peace of mind, plus discounted gym memberships for your local gym to help you stay active and feel your best.
• Performance Awards & Recognition:
  We offer an annual 'Company & Personal Performance Bonus Award', celebrating both the success of the business and the dedication of the individuals driving it forward.
  We also offer an 'Employee-Nominated Spot Bonus Award' receiving recognition from your peers is important and we want you to be able to celebrate each other throughout the year.
• Professional Development:
  We invest in your growth, offering free accounts to learning platforms such as Udemy & Pluralsight. We want to give you the freedom to learn new skills, deepen your expertise, and stay ahead in your field.

Line management of small teams

Strong understanding of the Change Control Process to identify any movement of agreed scope

Strong understanding of the phases of the software development and implementation lifecycle

Ownership of & adherence to individual and team planned efforts

Strong MS SQL, data querying & data manipulation

Industry based reconciliation development or other reconciliation software tool experience

Strong time management and recording skills

Proven experience delivering configuration/code on time and within budget

Experience acting as a technical lead on projects

Strong understanding of developing personal development plans, goals, and objective setting

FinTech, SaaS, or Finance background