Senior Software Engineer
Added 7 Sept · still live
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£54,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2134 (92% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and CloudPay is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
About This Job Opportunity
Our Vision
To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.
Our Mission
Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.
Our People
Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.
What Makes This Role Exciting
The Senior Software Engineer works closely with peers, customers and stakeholders globally with minimal supervision to deliver customer requirements to support the smooth utilization of the CloudPay platform across the world. Experienced in software development and will utilize this experience in developing solutions that bring maximum business value to the end customer.
Main Responsibilities
Our Vision
To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.
Our Mission
Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.
Our People
Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.
What Makes This Role Exciting
The Senior Software Engineer works closely with peers, customers and stakeholders globally with minimal supervision to deliver customer requirements to support the smooth utilization of the CloudPay platform across the world. Experienced in software development and will utilize this experience in developing solutions that bring maximum business value to the end customer.
Main Responsibilities
- Analysing requirements, technical design, and implementing into new capabilities within the platform
- Upholding code standards and best practices through code reviews, refactoring efforts, peer mentoring and identifying improvements to coding and technical standards
- Building solutions in the context of a legacy platform transitioning to microservice architecture.\
- Selecting the appropriate design methodologies to be applied, determining design alternatives and performing trade-off analysis
- Engaging in the identification and remediation of issues related to quality, performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and functionality or other problems in the technical and business domains
- Extensive hands-on development experience, with a strong foundation in OOP and Design Patterns, Clean code and SOLID principles
- Strong working knowledge of Java 11 (at least 3 years), Spring framework or Spring boot and JavaScript
- Demonstrable experience in implementing microservices, familiarity with microservice architecture and design patterns
- Experience working with relational (MySQL/MariaDB) AND NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) database management systems and ability to write complex queries.
- Experience in API-driven development, application performance tuning and secure coding
- Experience in Java 17, Node.js, Groovy, AngularJS, React-Redux, Vue.js
- Background in Payroll, HR or other financial domains
- Working in Agile or Scrum environment
- Taking ownership, working with integrity and respect
- Being a team player is key to our culture
- Solution and customer focused
- Great initiative with the goal for excellence in achieving results
- Dedicated to developing and always looking for continuous improvements
- Be creative, be committed, be engaged and enjoy what you do
- Competitive Salary
- Competitive vacation allowance
- Calm app
The CloudPay culture is built upon on five core values, from which we develop our service, our technology and our business strategies. Our fundamental beliefs are a promise to our employees, customers and partners, built on the core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork.
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2134 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~343k in sampleP25 £42kP75 £76k
£33kmedian £57kgoing rate £55k£103k
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Not necessarily. CloudPay holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2134 going rate of £54,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.