Senior Engineer

A leading UK Bank is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their new Customer Authentication and Access Management feature team. You'll play a pivital role to design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

You will help shape innovative solutions that enhance and transform our technology estate within Transaction Banking. You will work as part of a Scrum team within an Agile environment to deliver API's and microservices. Additional collaboration with Platform teams and Lead Engineers will help define backlogs and identify the required solutions.

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability

• Strong Java and Spring Boot development experience in high-throughput systems
• Deep understanding of event-driven and messaging architectures (Kafka, JMS, AMQP or similar)
• Experience engineering reliability and observability at scale (monitoring, tracing, SLIs/SLOs)
• Experience building notification delivery infrastructure (webhooks, push, SMS)
• Awareness of the payments domain, including processing flows and compliance considerations
• Experience adopting AI-assisted development practices to improve productivity and code quality

This is a permanent role can be based out of the Northampton or Knutsford Office.