software engineer

Descripción de la vacante Job DescriptionThis role is intended for an experienced software engineer who will act as the primary day-to-day coach and facilitator for a distributed delivery team, with particular responsibility for developing Agile maturity and cloud-native engineering capability among offshore engineers.While remaining hands-on, success in this role will be measured primarily by team effectiveness, adoption of sound engineering practices, and capability uplift rather than individual feature throughput.Team ContextThis role sits within a cross-functional agile team comprising an Engineering Lead (technical architecture and delivery assurance), a Technical Product Manager, and a group of offshore software engineers with a mix of recent joiners and experienced practitioners.The successful candidate will act as the primary in-team coach, ensuring that Agile practices, engineering standards, and cloud-native development approaches are consistently understood and applied across the team.Key ResponsibilitiesAct as the primary Agile practices coach within the team, supporting offshore engineers in effective participation in Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, estimation, and continuous improvement.Serve as the main day-to-day technical and delivery mentor for a distributed team of offshore engineers, with particular responsibility for developing cloud-native engineering capability and helping newer team members rapidly become effective within Elavon’s engineering, compliance, and operational context.Embrace and promote Agile values such as iterative development, customer collaboration and adaptability.Design, develop and maintain scalable and resilient microservice applications using Java and Spring Boot, while setting patterns and standards that enable other engineers to deliver consistently and independently.Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Rancher.Collaborate with engineers and product managers, demonstrating a T-shaped

skillset with deep expertise in software development and broad capabilities across software design, development, testing and CI/CD.Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles in collaboration with product owners and domain experts.Required SkillsProven experience in software development with a focus on application integration and cloud-native microservice applications.Demonstrated experience acting as a senior or lead engineer within a team, providing technical coaching and delivery guidance without formal people-management authority.Substantial experience working in Agile teams, including coaching other engineers in Agile principles, ceremonies, and delivery discipline, and helping teams move from theory into effective practice.Proven experience in application-level database design and data modelling, with particular emphasis on PostgreSQL, including operating and optimising PostgreSQL-backed services in cloud environments (e.g. Amazon RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL).Proficiency in:Java and Spring BootIntegration frameworks such as Apache Camel or Spring IntegrationKubernetes and/or RancherEvent streaming using KafkaJSON and JSONSchemaUnit testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit)Practical experience applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in collaborative, product-led environments.Advanced proficiency in both spoken and written English.Additional Preferred SkillsKnowledge of event-driven architecture and the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP).Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, Azure 2nd choice), including experience helping other engineers build and operate cloud-native services safely and consistently.An interest in artificial intelligence, particularly in how it can be used to enhance software development practices, would be advantageous.Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices and tools (e.g. JUnit and Cucumber).Familiarity with, Istio or other service