10x Banking
About the role As a Software Engineer at 10x, you are passionate about working with cutting edge technologies and bring deep technical knowledge and proven experience with data systems to deliver scalable solutions. This role is with the team responsible for building and running the interest calculation and fees and charges components. Services run by this team calculate in excess of 10 million interest accruals every night and post tens of millions of pounds worth of interest each month. Calculations are completed in less than 20 minutes and the team achieves this using a highly parallelisable Elastic Map Reduce cluster. Additionally, the role requires mentoring junior developers and delivering high quality software in a high performance, fast paced development environment. This role has an office attendance requirement of approximately twice per quarter, in agreement with your line manager. About you You will be keen to solve problems beyond the borders of your immediate team and demonstrate that you can think on multiple levels; from strategic and tactical to driving operational excellence and system availability. You are adept at reading code and designing and delivering systems that can exceed the exacting demands of our clients. Ideal skills and experience Solid Java software development skillset, ideally utilising Java 21 or higher and the Spring framework, in particular Spring Boot 3.x.x. Test driven development mindset, with good experience in writing unit, integration, and functional tests specifically for web services. Experience with Kafka and event driven architecture. Prior experience working with SQL databases, strong knowledge around PostgreSQL. Interest in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, experience with build tools such as Gradle / Maven. Experience helping lead the development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud based microservices. Strong knowledge of designing and building RESTful APIs. Experience building and deploying production level microservices using Docker / Kubernetes / Helm. Proven experience developing JVM based microservices running in Kubernetes, and taking them through all stages of the development life cycle. Proven experience building cloud based solutions using AWS. Applicable knowledge of event streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka). Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic, and a strong desire to write production quality code. Good experience delivering software in an Agile manner, working as part of a Scrum team. You write high quality, clean code that's reliable, maintainable and performant. Deep understanding of best practices in agile software development. Good at managing stakeholders, mentoring and empowering others. Ability to assess technical trade offs and deliver optimal solutions. Benefits 25 days of holiday in addition to bank/public holidays (with the option to swap some public holidays for alternative dates such as Diwali or Eid). 1 day off on or around your birthday. 4 wellbeing days (1 additional paid day off per quarter). Remote enabled working. Enhanced parental policies, including time off for fertility treatment. Regular social gatherings and affinity groups. Work from anywhere outside your typical working location - up to 4 weeks a year. Career progression and learning pathways. 1 paid volunteering day a year. Sabbatical leave. Options pool. Private health insurance, with the option to add your family. Pension scheme. Enhanced company sick pay. Life assurance. Income protection. Subscription to Headspace wellbeing app. Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice. Equal opportunities We are committed to ensuring all job applicants are treated equally and fairly and encourage applicants of all ethnicities, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, age, neurodiversity or disability status. Accommodations Any form of accommodation during the interview process can be requested; all information will be recorded and maintained confidentially.
About the role As a Software Engineer at 10x, you are passionate about working with cutting edge technologies and bring deep technical knowledge and proven experience with data systems to deliver scalable solutions. This role is with the team responsible for building and running the interest calculation and fees and charges components. Services run by this team calculate in excess of 10 million interest accruals every night and post tens of millions of pounds worth of interest each month. Calculations are completed in less than 20 minutes and the team achieves this using a highly parallelisable Elastic Map Reduce cluster. Additionally, the role requires mentoring junior developers and delivering high quality software in a high performance, fast paced development environment. This role has an office attendance requirement of approximately twice per quarter, in agreement with your line manager. About you You will be keen to solve problems beyond the borders of your immediate team and demonstrate that you can think on multiple levels; from strategic and tactical to driving operational excellence and system availability. You are adept at reading code and designing and delivering systems that can exceed the exacting demands of our clients. Ideal skills and experience Solid Java software development skillset, ideally utilising Java 21 or higher and the Spring framework, in particular Spring Boot 3.x.x. Test driven development mindset, with good experience in writing unit, integration, and functional tests specifically for web services. Experience with Kafka and event driven architecture. Prior experience working with SQL databases, strong knowledge around PostgreSQL. Interest in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, experience with build tools such as Gradle / Maven. Experience helping lead the development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud based microservices. Strong knowledge of designing and building RESTful APIs. Experience building and deploying production level microservices using Docker / Kubernetes / Helm. Proven experience developing JVM based microservices running in Kubernetes, and taking them through all stages of the development life cycle. Proven experience building cloud based solutions using AWS. Applicable knowledge of event streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka). Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic, and a strong desire to write production quality code. Good experience delivering software in an Agile manner, working as part of a Scrum team. You write high quality, clean code that's reliable, maintainable and performant. Deep understanding of best practices in agile software development. Good at managing stakeholders, mentoring and empowering others. Ability to assess technical trade offs and deliver optimal solutions. Benefits 25 days of holiday in addition to bank/public holidays (with the option to swap some public holidays for alternative dates such as Diwali or Eid). 1 day off on or around your birthday. 4 wellbeing days (1 additional paid day off per quarter). Remote enabled working. Enhanced parental policies, including time off for fertility treatment. Regular social gatherings and affinity groups. Work from anywhere outside your typical working location - up to 4 weeks a year. Career progression and learning pathways. 1 paid volunteering day a year. Sabbatical leave. Options pool. Private health insurance, with the option to add your family. Pension scheme. Enhanced company sick pay. Life assurance. Income protection. Subscription to Headspace wellbeing app. Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice. Equal opportunities We are committed to ensuring all job applicants are treated equally and fairly and encourage applicants of all ethnicities, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, age, neurodiversity or disability status. Accommodations Any form of accommodation during the interview process can be requested; all information will be recorded and maintained confidentially.