API Software Engineer

Role overview

What you’ll do

• Engineer and maintain customer-centric, high-performance, secure, and robust software solutions.
• Work in a feature team to engineer software, scripts, and tools, liaising with engineers, architects, and business analysts.
• Produce complex, critical software rapidly and to a high standard.
• Work across the full software lifecycle, from development and enhancement through maintenance to replacement or decommissioning.
• Design, produce, test, and implement working software solutions across analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Collaborate to optimise software engineering capability.

Skills and experience

• Background in software engineering and solution design, with experience delivering scalable, reliable applications throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Maven, DB2, and GitLab for enterprise-grade applications from design through deployment.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs to established engineering standards and best practices.
• Good understanding of microservices, scalability, resiliency, caching, and performance optimisation.
• Experience with Java performance tuning, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex technical issues.
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD, with experience in Agile delivery, automation, production support, and monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.
• Collaborative team player who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and delivering high-quality software in an Agile environment.

Work arrangement

• Hybrid: work from home some of the time and regularly attend an office or hub to collaborate with colleagues.
• Normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.