Senior Software Engineer II - Contacts Team - Java
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FULL DESCRIPTION
[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on their Contacts team. The role involves scaling up and building a world-class recipient management product, collaborating with designers, product managers, and analysts in an agile environment. The ideal candidate should have experience with large-scale distributed systems, Java 8+, relational and non-relational databases, and RESTful APIs.
Job Description
The Contacts team is a core team at [Employer hidden], dedicated to making adding, finding, and managing your recipients as easy as possible. We own this experience end-to-end: from the scalable platform securing tens of millions of bank accounts customers send to, to the intelligent search algorithms and local integrations (like Pix) that power discovery, all the way to the customer-facing screens where users interact with their counterparties. The team is integral to [Employer hidden]’s day-to-day operations — if our services go down, [Employer hidden] goes down.
How we work
We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with designers, the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our Tallinn and London offices.
What will you be working on?
You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the backend solution powering the recipient’s user experience. You will help us scale-up and build a world class recipient management product.
What do you need?
We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!
You get things done
You have experience working with large scale distributed systems
You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development
Nice to have:
You have experience with Spring boot
You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)