Software Engineer II
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Job description
As a Software Engineer II, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing solutions that power this transformation. You'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge software architectures, solve challenging problems, and collaborate with diverse teams to create impactful solutions for our fast-paced fintech environment. We're looking for engineers who thrive when tackling complex, meaningful challenges and have a strong foundational knowledge of software development across multiple languages and frameworks. We are innovators who operate in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment while valuing continual learning, flexibility, and adaptability. If you're looking for a role that combines creative problem-solving with the drive to make an immediate impact on an evolving industry, let's change everything together.This role will work with the Client Developer Experience team that focuses on two drivers:
- Provide frictionless tools, documentation, and support to client developers so they can build and deploy efficiently with our next generation cloud platform, AscendOS.
- Act as advocates for client developers, working closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to represent developer needs., * Write, test, and maintain high-quality, reusable code that adheres to development best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement scalable software systems and applications.
- Contribute to the design and optimization of microservices and cloud-based system architectures.
- Prototype and implement new features to enhance our financial technology platform.
- Participate in on-call rotations as level 1 support engineer for our data platform services.
- Employ CI/CD best practices, and agile workflows to accelerate development cycles.
- Conduct rigorous code reviews to ensure strong engineering principles and maintainable solutions.
- Debug complex problems across the software stack and propose solutions to enhance performance, stability, and maintainability.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and industry protocols while adhering to the firm's policies.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Software development?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) required
- 3+ years of professional development experience with a multi-person engineering team, leveraging modern practices like code reviews, CI/CD, and trunk-based development.
- Experience in cloud ecosystems, particularly Google Cloud Platform services like BigQuery, Pub/Sub, or Cloud Functions.
Required Skills/Abilities
- Proficiency in software development using modern programming languages like Python, Java, Go, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven expertise in relational databases and familiarity with distributed systems or data-intensive platforms including SQL query expertise.
- Familiarity with software development best practices like testing, version control, and agile processes.
- A problem-solving mindset, with the ability to think critically through challenging engineering scenarios.
- An innate passion for learning new technologies, frameworks, and tools to contribute to dynamic software solutions.
Benefits & conditions
Work Environment
- This role operates in a hybrid, office environment 2 days per week
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Our Rewards
We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including a market-leading salary with an annual bonus, 28 days of annual leave plus 10 Northern Ireland national holidays, a training and development budget, and a pension matched up to 7%. Our benefits also cover private health insurance for medical, dental, and optical care, and life insurance. We emphasize work-life balance with flexible working hours, parental leave, a modern city center office, and a hybrid work schedule that allows for greater flexibility by partially working from home. Additional perks include monthly catered lunches, unlimited drinks and snacks, hackathon events, poker tournaments, and a charitable matching gift program.
