API Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you’ll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you’ll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

You’ll come with experience in software engineering, software design and microservices architecture, along with hands-on experience designing, building and delivering Java-based microservices and APIs. You’ll have an understanding of the software development lifecycle and how engineering practices help deliver secure, resilient and reliable solutions for customers.

You’ll also need:

• Knowledge of Open Banking flows, API-based integrations, multi-tier architectures, and security protocols such as OAuth and mTLS
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or PCF
• An understanding of software design principles, microservices architecture and engineering best practices
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, including solution design, development, unit testing, code reviews, deployment and ongoing maintenance
• Experience implementing automated testing and code coverage practices to maintain high standards of software quality

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