Senior Backend Engineer - Java

SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER - JAVA

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.

Why Join Capco?

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We are/have:

• Experts across the Capital Markets, Insurance, Payments, Retail Banking and Wealth & Asset Management domains.
• Deep knowledge in various financial services offerings including Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.
• Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.

What Engineering at Capco offers:

• You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.
• You’ll be part of / drive excellent teams developing the new financial services apps, having the opportunity to work on exciting greenfield projects as well as on established Tier1 banks applications already adopted by millions of users.
• You will have the opportunity to learn and work with other back-end technologies (not restricted to Java) whenever you want to widen your expertise.
• We offer you the opportunity to train with the best courses and portals available online and get certified becoming the best version of software engineer you can.

The Role

We are looking for engineers who want to play a key part in supporting the evolution of the Financial Services industry one project at a time. You will be expected to be a strong team player who prides themselves on delivering modern, first class cloud based platforms through practicing best in class Agile ways of working at all times.

As a Senior Engineer at Capco, you will:

• Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement.
• Have deep technical knowledge of two or more technologies and is curious to learn other parts of the stack.
• Have experience delivering software/technology projects leveraging Agile methodologies.
• Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to customers.
• Have played a role in the delivery of critical business applications and ideally customer facing applications.
• Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.
• Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment. Have a passion for being part of the engineering team that is forming the future of finance.

Skills & Expertise

You will have experience working with the following Methodologies/Technologies;

Required Skills:

• Java Development - Expertise in Java 11, 17 and above.
• Spring Boot - Proficiency with the Spring Boot framework.
• Cloud Services - Deep understanding of deploying enterprise level software into any public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Architecture Patterns - Experience implementing microservices, event-driven, CQRS and cloud-native architectures.
• CI/CD - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, particularly within the AWS ecosystem.
• Database Management - Proficiency in both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Message Brokers - Experience with Kafka.
• Testing - Ability to write various types of tests including unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Java Streaming - Core understanding of Java streaming and AWS integration.
• Infrastructure as Code - Experience with CloudFormation or similar tools for infrastructure management.
• Large-Scale Systems Design - Experience with designing large-scale systems.
• Distributed Systems Troubleshooting - Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Security Best Practices - Strong knowledge of security best practices, including the use of IAM Roles, KMS, etc.

We'd also like to see:

• Proficiency with Gitlab for CI/CD processes.
• Behaviour Driven Design - Experience writing automation test cases in Cucumber using Behaviour Driven Design (BDD).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional level certification required.

We offer: 

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees 
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise 
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
• Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement 

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