Senior Java Software Engineer - Java 11+, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Akka
- Location: Wimbledon, Greater London, England
- Salary: £100k - 115k per year
- Category
- Sector: IT and Digital
- Contract type Permanent
- Consultant: Tom Lynch
Senior Java Software Engineer – Java 11+, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Akka, Docker/Kubernetes, Real-time, TDD/BDD, Payments - London
A Senior Java Engineer with a background in finance/payments and experience working on distributed real-time systems is sought after by a global Fintech. This organisation specialises in providing high performance technology solutions to global financial institutions (including several Investment Banks), primarily to augment their payments capabilities.
As a Senior Engineer, you will join the core engineering team working on the development of their real-time payments processing platform, using a primary tech stack of Java 17, Spring Boot and Akka. You will contribute from both a design and coding perspective, taking ownership of delivering new components and features ensuring high availability, resiliency and scalability.
As a Fintech, they are highly Agile, operating in multi-functional delivery squads manging projects from inception through to delivery/go-live and with a heavy focus on Pair Programming and TDD, so are looking for people from similar environments.
To be successful, you will demonstrate:
- A strong background in hands-on Java engineering, currently working with Java 11+
- Indepth knowledge of microservices architecture and usage of Spring/Spring Boot
- Experience developing distributed, real-time applications (with Akka AND/OR Kafka) with an appreciation of topics such as Concurrency and multithreading.
- Experience of Reactive Programming Techniques in conjunction with asynchronous event processing and data streams, with tools such as Spring Webflux, RxJava, Akka etc.
- Any experience with frontend Angular development or AWS cloud is highly beneficial.
- Industry experience within Financial Services, preferably within the Payments arena
If you are passionate about building real-time software and keen to join a growing fintech, please do apply!
Please note this role will require 2 days in office per week in South- West London