Software Engineer (Java / Kotlin)

What you will be doing:

Join the Transaction Monitoring Squad within the Risk Apps Tribe. We are a high-impact team responsible for a core defensive layer of the company: a real-time application that identifies and flags suspicious financial activities.

As a Software Engineer, you will: 

• Write Great Code. You’ll write maintainable, production-ready code for the "Mesh" platform, understanding that code is read more than it’s written.
• Own Delivery. We are obsessed with shipping value; you will own software deliveries beyond just a pull request, driving the team's production roadmap.
• Write and Own Your Tests. We maintain high standards for a critical product. You will be responsible for writing your own tests and ensuring maintainability; we do not rely on a separate QA team.
• Full-Stack Collaboration. While focused on backend APIs and microservices, you will work closely with frontend engineers, product owners, and data scientists to design end-to-end solutions.
• Continuous Growth. Participate in dedicated L&D days to sharpen your skills and share knowledge back with the team to improve our ways of working.

Our Tech Stack:

• Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP.
• Development is organised around Java, Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6+React for our frontend stack.
• We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres and also use noSQL technologies such as Cassandra.
• We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol.
• We use modern observability solutions from Datadog and deploy our code using ArgoCD.

We have a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and strive to ship the best possible code and the best possible solutions to our customers.

About you:

As a Software Engineer, you will have:

• Experience writing large scale production-grade applications.
• Worked in an agile environment and experience in pair programming.
• A firm commitment to writing your own tests as part of the development lifecycle.
• Experience working with cloud-based (AWS/Azure/GCP) or containerised infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker/Jenkins).

Nice to haves:

• Deep understanding of Kafka and event-sourced models.
• Experience with Postgres or Yugabyte.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot, TypeScript, or gRPC.

Education:

• BSc/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline OR relevant years of experience in required skills.

Benefits:

• Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building 
• Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best 
• We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships
• You will also get a new starter budget to kit out your home office 
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve 
• Annual learning budget (prorated based on start date) to drive your performance and career development