As part of an engineering team, you’ll use your software engineering skills and experience to build features, resolve issues, and address technical debt. You’ll also bring a strategic lens to team processes and tooling, helping improve how the team operates and ultimately delivering valuable, high-quality software to customers.

What you'll be doing

• Build clean, maintainable features and resolve end-to-end issues, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, add business value, and meet quality standards.
• Contribute to strategies for managing technical debt, ensuring systems are secure, resilient, and reliable.
• Define and analyse test approaches to deliver the best possible customer experience, with a focus on security, usability, and accessibility.
• Conduct and participate in code reviews, considering functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security.
• Promote continuous improvement in team effectiveness and culture, supporting changes that enhance productivity and happiness.
• Build a collaborative environment, coaching and mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Research emerging application technologies, identify opportunities to apply them, and share learnings across the team.
• Ensure all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly and with respect.

What we're looking for

• Technology-focused degree preferred, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Extensive knowledge of:
• Building serverless applications in AWS
• Building microservices in Java (Spring Boot)
• Strong understanding of clean code principles, design patterns, distributed systems, software testing, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Knowledge of application security.
• SQL, GraphQL, Maven
• Frontend performance optimisation
• API security and secure coding best practices
• Git release strategies
• Nice to have: Postgres, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Feign, Quarkus.
• Proven track record in:
• Delivering well-optimised and maintainable software features
• Analysing and solving complex technical problems
• Participating in effective code reviews with actionable feedback
• Technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing team strategy

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

About the job

• Contract Type: Permanent
• Focus: DevOps & Cloud
• Workplace Type: Hybrid
• Experience Level: Mid Management
• Location: City of London
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Specialism: Technology & Digital
• Focus: DevOps & Cloud
• Industry: Banking
• Salary: £75,000 - £90,000 per annum
• Workplace Type: Hybrid
• Experience Level: Mid Management
• Location: City of London
• FULL_TIME
• Job Reference: JX7U62-1C90E7F7
• Date posted: 5 September 2025
• Consultant: Charlie Douds

london information-technology/devops-cloud 2025-09-05 2025-11-04 banking City of London London GB GBP 75000 90000 90000 YEAR Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.co.uk https://www.robertwalters.co.uk/content/dam/robert-walters/global/images/logos/web-logos/square-logo.png