Senior Full Stack Engineer

Synechron is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to work on a long term programme of work at a global financial institution in SHEFFIELD. We are looking for an experienced developer to work within a diverse team in a hands on role and leadership role delivering code to production, supporting the architecture and design of the system aligned to a microservice structure.

Role:

• Driving the delivery of code at a faster cadence across the wider team. Leading by example with the volume and reliability of change delivered
• Actively engaging with the business and engineering leadership to fully understand requirements and get these understood across the wider team.
• Bring ideas and solutions to the table due to your understanding of the wider requirements.
• Lead and drive the wider engineering culture expected across our teams.
• Collaborate with a global team where co-ordination activities would cross regional boundaries.
• Proactively remove impediments, see risk and communicate issues to program management.
• Identify process inefficiencies and find innovative and programmatic ways to eliminate them.

Experience:

• Extensive experience in software engineering with proven expertise in designing, developing and deploying backend applications
• Experience both designing microservice and the wider microservice architecture
• Experience leading teams to deliver change to production at high cadence
• Experience in good CI/CD practice and development
• Experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs to production
• Extensive experience writing schemas for and working with PostgreSQL databases
• Strong experience with Java, preferably recent use of the latest versions
• Understanding of containers and Container Orchestration technology such as Docker/Kubernetes and GCP
• Strong experience developing UI applications using ReactJS
• Experience migrating databases from one stack to another e.g. MongoSQL to PostgreSQL
• Experience leading engineering in global teams
• Experience working in the financial sector, specifically banking

This role is SHEFFIELD based and requires x3 days in the office - Long term contract (inside IR35)

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.