Role Overview:

As a Software Engineer you will support the technical delivery abilities of the development teams across all disciplines from development, testing, dev-ops and business analysis, ultimately assisting in the delivery of production systems. The Associate Engineer will be proactive in seeking opportunities to learn and extend their knowledge in the engineering disciplines through supervised contribution supported by more senior team members.

The Associate Engineer will be passionate about software development, a self-learner, and keen to grow their technical skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done.

Role Responsibilities

• Act as a technical contributor on a team, demonstrating good technical competencies and a desire to improve those competencies to become a valued and independent contributor to the team

• With support from more senior team members participate in the elicitation, design, development and testing of software changes or features and support their successful deployment into a production setting

• With support from more senior team members be contribute to the elicitation and capturing of business requirements using techniques such as user stories and use cases

• With support from more senior team members be contribute to the development and execution of test cases and associated tasks to assess completion and quality of delivered user stories and use cases

• With support from more senior team members be capable of contributing to the delivery of complex systems

• Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to other members of the team

• Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with iteration planning and prioritisation

• Support the team through active participation in estimation of work to be done by discussing requirements and potential solutions with other team members

• Learn to recognise patterns in the software systems so that it is possible to have meaningful conversations about wider system architecture with more senior team members

• Gain an appreciation of how to evolve systems towards target state architecture through the use of directed refactoring and prioritisation of deliveries

Experience / Competences

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack or Front/Backend Engineer in Typescript in a professional environment.

• Front-end skills

  • HTML5, CSS3, and Typescript

  • React, Redux, ReactQuery

  • Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks - React

  • Knowledge of version control systems (Git)

  • Understanding of cross-browser compatibility

  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL and Websockets

  • Experience with CSS pre-processors e.g. Tailwind

• Back-end skills

  • Proficiency in backend programming languages (Typescript and/or other OOP language such as c#/Java)

  • Strong database knowledge (SQL and NoSQL)

  • Proficiency with RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs and Websockets

  • Experience with microservices architecture

  • Knowledge of version control systems (Git)

  • Experience with Terraform

  • Experience with automated testing

  • Experience with AWS (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync)

• Worked within an Agile Cross-functional delivery team.

• Developing well tested software into low latency event driven production environments.

• Full software development lifecycle in a technical role.

• Pub/Sub patterns with Messaging technologies (such as SOLACE/AMQP)

• Worked within a technical platform team, delivering reusable services across multiple agile projects.

• Containerization.

• Maintaining code quality with Unit, Integration and e2e testing.

• AWS cloud ecosystem and the AWS CLI (or industry equivalent).

• Linux shell or Windows PowerShell.

• CI and CD flows within an enterprise environment. Continuous Delivery

• Agile tooling to support team delivery, such as JIRA and other project management systems.

• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.

• Seeks opportunities for improvements.

• Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals.

• Can work with BA’s/PO’s to demystify ambiguity, handle challenge, and is comfortable to challenge team mates constructively.

• Adapts communication style to suit audience.

• Works ethically and shows respect for both professional and company values.

• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach.

• Strong analytical ability and innovative problem solving skills.

• Software Design Patterns.

• OOP \ SOLID Principles.

• Contribution to open-source projects.

• Experience of regulatory driven projects.

• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products.