Position Title: Principal Software Engineer (Java)
Location: Theale / Remote / Hybrid
Key Skills: Java, Springboot, MVC, AWS, Microservices, Containers, EKS, Kafka
Who Are We?
Bottomline Technologies are transforming business payments and processes for companies and financial institutions around the world. Obsessed with removing complexity and allowing people to simply Pay and Get Paid. Automating and digitising all that is possible. Every day. We empower customer satisfaction through growth in new markets.
Culture and Values
We are a team of people who are strongly committed to maintain our fantastic culture, and ensuring our values and principles are lived out daily. We share ideas, innovate together and support each other personally and professionally in order to delight our customers! Working collaboratively with customers, partners and each other, we achieve a common goal of exceeding customer expectations.
The Role
You will be working as a key member of an agile development team on exciting products for a growing Fintech company. You will bring your enthusiasm and experience of software development and the design of complex solutions to the role. Working closely with the Senior Engineers, DevOps and the Principal Architect you will design new and evolve existing systems helping to drive them through to Production. You will be responsible for delivering great product investigating new technologies, developing prototypes and new capabilities and leading the teams on best practice.
Main Duties
- Work closely with the Principal Architect, DevOps and Senior Engineers to design solutions and deliver great product
- Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
- Create and maintain Architectural documentation
- Present approaches to the broader team and stakeholders
- Mentor and Coach the teams on best practice
- Work with Product and Development management on release estimation and high level evaluation of potential new projects
- Assist in estimation and planning of future work within a scrum project framework.
- Contribute as a member of the development team to planned work
- Provide peer code reviews.
- Continuously update technical expertise.
- Present new product functionality and architecture to other development and business groups within the company.
- Record activity and re-estimate work remaining on project tasks.
Skills And Experience
- Previous Financial Services, Banking or Payments (Domestic, International, Open Banking/PSD2) is desirable but not essential
- Hands on Java /JEE, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, Maven, Spring DI, Spring boot, Keycloak
- Java Multithreaded programming
- Oracle DB
- Customer Facing API design
- AWS, Micro services, Service Oriented Architecture, Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Authentication approaches (Oauth2, OpenID Connect)
- ORM Technologies (JPA/Hibernate)
- Jenkins
- Open Source RDBMS (e.g. Postgres)
- Elastic Search
- Message Queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Agile methodologies
- Creation of RESTful services
- Financial Domain experience, specifically; Development using TDD/BDD
- Hands-on experience in HTML, JavaScript & web application development
Bottomline are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to treating all individuals in a fair and equal manner by creating an inclusive and open environment for all employees.
