Backend Software Engineer (Java) | Payments / Financial services

We are partnering with a leading technology-driven organisation operating within the Financial Services, FinTech and Payments sector to hire several experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and enhancing customer-facing products used at scale. You'll be involved in designing, developing and operating modern, cloud-based applications, collaborating with product, architecture and engineering colleagues to deliver resilient and scalable solutions.

Experience within Financial Services, FinTech or Payments environments is essential.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, building and enhancing modern software applications and services
• Developing high-quality, maintainable and reusable code
• Contributing to microservices-based architectures and distributed systems
• Building and supporting customer-facing applications used by large user populations
• Driving software quality through automated testing and continuous improvement
• Monitoring application health, performance and operational reliability
• Managing deployments and supporting production environments
• Investigating and resolving production incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes
• Contributing to architectural discussions and solution design
• Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices, delivery processes and system performance
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical technology solutions

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience with Spring Boot and microservices architectures
• Experience building customer-facing applications
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
• Strong backend engineering expertise and a solid understanding of distributed systems
• Experience delivering large-scale applications, ideally supporting 10,000+ users
• A track record of delivering measurable project outcomes and business impact
• Experience operating services in production environments
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Kafka
• AWS
• Docker
• Continuous Delivery practices
• Payments industry experience

Full-Stack Candidates

Whilst backend expertise remains the highest priority, we are also keen to hear from engineers with full-stack experience. Candidates with a combination of Java backend development and React.js frontend development will be considered, particularly where they have strong backend credentials and experience delivering end-to-end solutions.

Successful candidates will typically demonstrate:

• Experience working within Financial Services, FinTech or Payments organisations
• Ownership of systems throughout the software development lifecycle
• Experience supporting live production systems
• A pragmatic approach to software design and architecture
• Evidence of improving systems, processes or engineering practices
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within agile teams

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Typically 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience, or equivalent
• Experience of developing enterprise-scale backend applications

Why Apply?

• Join a highly regarded organisation within the Financial Services and Payments sector
• Modern cloud-native technology environment
• Opportunity to influence architecture, engineering quality and platform evolution