Back End Developer (Sheffield x3 days)
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Synechron is looking for an experienced, hands-on, high-impact Bank End Developer to work with a leading global financial institution. You will become the crucial link between infrastructure and development — understanding pain points, designing elegant solutions, and shipping tools that make other engineers faster and happier.
This role is based in SHEFFIELD x3 days a week.
Role:
- Partner with Product Owners to deeply understand requirements and break them down into focused, deliverable items
- Design and build robust, scalable microservices with high observability and supportability, following DevOps and Agile principles
- Own your deliverables end-to-end — from design through deployment — and hit agreed timelines
- Provide rapid, effective production support; perform root cause analysis on incidents and drive long-term fixes that stick
- Act as a trusted technical consultant for platform users, resolving queries and unblocking teams with speed and clarity
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional IT teams and coordinate stakeholder activities to keep the platform evolving
- Proactively manage technical debt and keep security and vulnerability posture sharp
- Mentor junior developers, share knowledge generously, and champion a high-performing team culture
Experience:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focused on DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE
- Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood — DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, service meshes, and API gateways — and how these come together in modern microservice architectures
- Strong programming ability (structured and OOP) in one or more of: Java, JavaScript, Python, or Clojure
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB; familiarity with time-series databases and data visualisation concepts
Long term contract - Inside IR35 - Strong market rates - X3 days in Sheffield a week.
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