Senior Software Engineer

Role Summary

Location: Remote First; office location Moorgate, London (flexible remote working locations within UK/Europe)

Employment type: Permanent

Working Hours: Full time (UK 9-6)

You will work within a small team where you will pair-program (we operate using the extreme programming framework) to:

• Build resilient and adaptable fintech platforms and components in Java
• Refactor to improve code design
• Write lots of tests (every one of our commits is continuously and rapidly verified by thousands of tests)
• Automate the boring bits

Features of the way we work

• We avoid silos by regularly rotating between teams to work on the whole system with an Our Code not My Code mindset and approach
• We practice trunk-based development and continuous integration: we treat every commit as releasable
• We treat broken tests as failures and revert where possible
• We practice TDD, BDD and DDD
• We automate as much as possible
• We pair program to ensure that everyone understands the context of what they are working on.  We also believe that pairing drives quality, learning, cross-skilling, and builds empathy with other developers
• Sometimes we have to care about throughput and latency and so take this into account when writing code
• See Dave Farley walk through how our CI pipeline works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKHdp4H-8w

Our needs

We are quite open minded about what experience level and background you come from. We are growing the team and are keen to encourage diversity of domain experience and a range of experience levels, therefore our specification is quite flexible. We’re open minded about your path to becoming a developer however we do expect you to have written code in a professional setting. We don’t require any particular academic or specific work experience to have got you to where you are in your career journey.

Responsibilities

Above all you will

• Be happy to pair-program fulltime
• Have commercial Java experience
• Have a clear understanding of and/or exposure to TDD
• Be able to communicate opinions, ideas and thought processes clearly