Senior Application Software Engineer; Java​/Backend

Overview

Job Title: Senior Application Software Engineer (Java/Spring/Backend)

Location: Manchester

Salary: £60,000-£75,000

Workplace Type: Hybrid (3 days a week in the office)

Employment Type: Full-Time

We are interactive investor (ii), the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, here to help our customers take control of their financial future. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for customer pensions, ISAs and investments. Other providers charge a percentage fee, which means the amount a customer pays increases as their investments grow. Our flat fee stays the same, so ii customers keep more of their money.

Additionally, we provide an industry-leading selection of investments and a team generating up-to-date expert insight. This choice and intelligence can help our customers invest in the way that's right for them. interactive investor has been helping investors for 25 years. Over the years, we have seen market highs and lows, and been resilient throughout. We are proud to have over £45 billion of assets under administration, over 500,000 customers, and to be rated ‘Excellent' on Trustpilot.

The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business.

• As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area
• Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability
• Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream
• Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions
• Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate
• Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities
• Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront
• Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team
• Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision
• Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately
• Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing
• Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology
• Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain
• Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of…