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Transaction Banking - Software Engineering - Analyst - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Transaction Banking - Software Engineering - Analyst - London

Transaction Banking - Software Engineering - Analyst - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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Transaction Banking (TxB) aims to bring innovative solutions to traditional banking and lending activities. We combine the strength and heritage of a 148-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Using modern technologies centred on data and analytics, we provide customers with powerful tools that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity to improve cash flow management efficiency.

Payments lay at the heart of what we are doing in Corporate Cash Management and our mission is to build a market‑leading payment platform that meets our corporate client’s needs. We are starting with a clean slate and one singular goal in mind: Build a highly scalable, resilient, 24x7 available cloud‑based payment platform that our corporate clients can run rely on to run and grow their businesses.

As part of our global team, you will work on various technologies and components as an application developer. Your role includes specification, development, as well as the testing and roll‑out of new features focusing on code quality, automation, testability and security. Payment systems, due to their criticality, present unique engineering challenges around resiliency, availability and scale. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the vision, understand our product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within our global team. We expect the successful candidate to deliver high‑quality software and to be passionate about software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development concepts. A good understanding of the Cloud and Container concepts is a plus. You will also be responsible for developing supportable software and liaise with our SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team to factor in their requirements.

Our flat structure requires and enables team members to evolve through the entire spectrum of the software life cycle and closely collaborate with product owners, business and operations users.

We are looking for someone with lots of energy that has excellent communication skills, enjoys engineering challenges, has a passion to deliver high‑quality technology products and can operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment.

• Develop full stack applications with due consideration to security, design, validation and SDLC framework
• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, engineers to define product requirements, objectives in building customer‑centric products
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Must be passionate about technology and engineering
• Must be independent and comfortable in a fast‑paced, ambiguous and often multi‑directional work environment
• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision‑making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Analyse existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide deadline estimates for implementing new features
• Establish trusted partnerships with peers, product heads, and executive‑level stakeholders
• Ability to leverage technology to deliver business value
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
• Minimum 2 years of relevant professional experience using a modern programming language (preferably Java)
• Experience in working with databases – NoSQL and/or Relational.
• Proficiency in development with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs
• Proficiency with algorithms, data structures and software design
• Experience leveraging test‑driven development methodologies
• Comfort with Agile operating models (practical experience of Scrum/Kanban)
• Team oriented, strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Energetic, self‑directed, and self‑motivated

• Experience with development and design of distributed systems
• Experience with Payments systems (understanding of the various payment networks)
• Experience in Financial Services or Fintech
• Experience with microservice architectures (SOA)
• Experience with Kafka, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL/Oracle/Sybase)
• Experience with AWS services - Amazon MSK/Apache Kafka, ECS/Kubernetes, S3
• Experience with Snowflake
• Experience with Terraform
• Comfort with Agile operating models (practical experience of Scrum / Kanban)

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