Backend Developer

We are a fast-growing FinTech company looking for a talented and enthusiastic engineer to join our team. We are expanding, making this a perfect position if you would like to have a significant impact on our company’s growth and develop your role and career as the business evolves. You will join a team where your ideas will be welcomed and valued. You will be responsible for designing, developing and enhancing our core platform by contributing to the delivery of new projects and improvements to our current ones, working on business-critical systems and helping to shape how the platform scales and evolves. The role spans the full development lifecycle — from technical designs and implementation through to databases and DevOps. You need to be flexible and innovative and be able to handle challenges. #### Role Responsibilities - Enhance and extend our core Cash Management platform, using your extensive experience in .NET and C# development. - Help design, build and operate distributed, microservices-based systems. - Take part in technical designs — considering the full system, weighing trade-offs, and helping the team choose the right tools and patterns. - Design and develop event-driven, asynchronous workflows and messaging integrations. - Work with stakeholders across the business to analyse requirements and develop solutions. - Implement continuous integration and delivery to limit manual testing and troubleshooting. - Apply DevOps practices to deliver resilient, scalable and secure software. - Produce accurate technical and non-technical documentation. #### Requirements We’re interested in the skills, experience and personality you can bring, including: - Strong knowledge of C# and .NET, including object-oriented programming and SOLID design principles. - MS SQL and T-SQL. - Hands-on experience building and operating microservices architectures - Experience with event-driven systems and asynchronous messaging patterns. - A solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges. - Familiarity with asynchronous message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Service Bus or Event Hub. - Experience containerising and running services with Docker and orchestrating them with Kubernetes. - Experience designing, implementing and consuming RESTful APIs. - Ability to evaluate and communicate the trade-offs between different tools and patterns for scale, reliability, speed of delivery and more. - Ability to and take an active part in technical design discussions. - A pragmatic approach to coding, choosing solutions that fit the problem, balancing quality and simplicity, consider the full system design. - Some front-end development experience in Vue.js is a nice to have. - Experience with NoSQL or document databases such as MongoDB or Azure Cosmos DB. (Plus) - Experience designing and developing continuous integration build, test and deployment environments using modern cloud-based tools and techniques. (Plus) - Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams, with an understanding of sprint planning, story points and iterative development. (Plus) #### **About you** - Able to integrate quickly and work well within a team. - Confident, self-motivated and able to display a high degree of focus. - Comfortable working in a challenging and demanding environment. - Able to work using your own initiative and whilst under pressure. - Possess very good verbal and written communication skills. - Able to demonstrate a logical and analytical approach to problem-solving. - Have excellent research and analysis skills. #### Benefits - Competitive compensation - 25 days holiday (exc. Bank holidays) - Pension contributions - Private medical insurance - Employee health and wellness discounts - Cycle to Work Scheme - Monthly team lunches