Job Description

Principal Java Developer- London/Hybrid- up to £95k

This is a Principal Java Engineer position with an innovative and light footed fintech startup/scaleup company who are on a mission to revolutionise the credit and lending space. The brand, who have now been running for the last 10 years and backed by VC investment, are looking to hire a Principal Engineer to work on an exciting Product roadmap over the coming years.

This role is a hybrid position based in central London. They are looking for people that are willing to come to their office 3 days per week, there may have a bit of flexibility on this and very flexible hours.

Tech Stack:

• Java 17
• Spring Boot
• AWS
• Microservices
• ML/ Big Data- desirable
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Messaging - Kafka

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of low latency software components
• Contribute across the entire SDLC
• Write and enhance well structured, testable, scalable and efficient code
• Setup and maintain development process tools
• Collaborate in agile development process meetings, stand ups, sprint panning, retrospectives and foster collaboration
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Collaborate with cross functional teams
• Champion best practice

Projects:

• Migration from some monolithic architecture to microservices
• Migration from java 11 to java 17
• Migration to new versions of Vaadin
• Brand new lender platform and payment systems for their customers

Cultural fit:

• Super collaborative
• Process light and the Senior Engineers are able to introduce ideas and have autonomy to drive change
• Looking for self starters, pragmatic engineers that will be accustomed to working in a start up/scale up

This is a brilliant role for someone that wants to play a big part in the growth of a team and a business, where their voice is heard and ideas are shared. The successful Principal Engineer will get the opportunity to work on a trail blazing fintech product with a great bunch of people, with no red tape or bureaucracy.

Salary is up to £95k plus a competitive benefits package which includes 5% matched pension (salary sacrifice), 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, private health care, income protection, super flexible hours, L&D budget, a modern and state of the art office with lots of socials and an outstanding Engineering Leader who has a history of building high performing teams and growth of individuals.

These guys have impressive growth plans for the coming years so its a great time to join, if this sounds like you then please click apply now!

Senior Java Developer- London/Hybrid- up to £95k