Senior Software Engineer Cards Engineering

Why are we recruiting

Are you a Software Engineer with a passion for technology, looking to join an ambitious and growing cross-functional DevOps team? As a Software Engineer in PayPoint, you will be hands-on working in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven cards engineering team. You will undertake a variety of tasks (analysis, estimating, design, coding, testing, prototyping) to support the team in the delivery of their ongoing sprint goals.

The cards engineering team works across two apps that serve thousands of clients 24/7 providing insights and real time data to help merchants manage their businesses. The team is currently working on introducing payment solutions to both apps and providing a robust product to support our clients. We are agile and self-sufficient, managing everything from ideation and planning to tests, deployments, and maintenance.

This is a hybrid position working remotely with monthly visits to our bright and modern offices in Welwyn Garden City.

What will you be doing?

• Working in a fast-paced product driven agile team to help drive the delivery and technical competency of the team and the product forwards.
• Developing clean code which adheres to SOLID principles and follow the solution architecture.
• Focusing on back-end development, learning new languages/tools and deepening your skillset.
• Being committed to all aspects of quality from the start of every development (fully automated QA environment).
• Demonstrating experience of implementing features with security in mind.
• Ensuring that coded solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Actively participating in driving continuous improvement within the team.
• Showing a commitment to deliver high quality well tested software as part of an agile team.
• Demonstrating a can do and pragmatic approach to overcoming obstacles.
• High level of documentation skills and collaborative ways of working.
• Being part of an out of hours support rota to ensure that the applications, systems and services in your area run smoothly at all times and ensuring service is optimized.
• Assisting with translating technical solutions into language that non-technical staff will understand.
• Delivering to ambitious timelines and target dates.
• Being accountable for the deliveries into the Production environment by you and other engineers within the team, ensuring that these do not compromise the stability, availability and security of the systems, services, or products.

What would we like from you?

• Several years’ experience as a software engineer
• Follow industry standard principles (SOLID, clean code).
• Experience of application design in a micro-service architecture (considering security and infrastructure).
• Strong Azure Cloud experience (Networking, Storage, Kubernetes, App Services, API Manager, Monitoring)
• .NET Core / .NET 6+.
• .NET Framework (version 3.5+) and C#.
• Java.
• Web Development (HTML, CSS & SaSS, JavaScript, JQuery, node.js, ECMAScript).
• Web API (RESTful).
• JavaScript frameworks (e.g. AngularJS, KnockoutJS).
• Front-end frameworks (React).
• SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored Procedures).
• No-SQL (Cosmos Db).
• Unit Test Framework (NUnit, MSTest, or xUnit.net), Integration Testing.
• Mocking frameworks (e.g. Moq).
• Source Control, Build and Deployment Tools (Azure DevOps and GIT).
• Agile (Scrum, Kanban) or DevOps environment experience, TDD/Unit Testing, CI/CD.

It would be great if you already have…

• Experience of DevSecOps.
• Experience of Android application development using React.
• Messaging Frameworks (e.g. Azure Service Bus).
• ORM Technology (NHibernate or Entity Framework).
• Microsoft SSIS and SSRS.
• MSMQ.
• Postman/SOAP, Selenium, Cypress, Splunk.
• Experience in newer languages such as Golang or Rust etc.

What can we do for you?

• Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.
• On-site gym at our office, and nationwide corporate rate gym membership.
• Collect+ service at our office, where you can send and receive parcels.
• Online benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping or holidays.
• Contributory company pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• You’re also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance and TasteCard dining discount card.

At PayPoint, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and feel a sense of belonging. PayPoint is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.