Synoptic IT Hiring for Senior Software Engineer – Scala – Remote Position Job at London, England Full Time

Senior Software Engineer – Scala

Cambridge or London – Flexible

This fulltime position is with Attra (https://attra.com/).

We are Attra, a Synechron company — experts in the payments domain, backed by over two decades of experience. We are constantly learning, leveraging our knowledge, and taking the lead in providing technology services and solutions to clients across the globe.

If you are curious, forward-thinking and love to collaborate to solve interesting challenges then we want to hear from you.

With us you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

What you will be doing

You will collaborate with your cross-functional squad to design, develop, operate and improve the products our customers enjoy using. You will work with the wider engineering team to bring solutions to challenges that require cross squad collaboration. As a member of the squad you will also have deep understanding of the product and industry you are building for. You will also have the opportunity to be a teacher for less experienced engineers.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively develop the features and engineering capabilities for the products your squad own. We aim to employ automation for everything
• Collaborate in all stages of development from requirement discussions with the Product Owner to the deployment of the feature in the cloud
• Join the on-call rota to support the highly available products developed by the squad
• Provide your squad with the tools to enable data driven decision making
• Supporting and mentoring more junior engineers within the squad
• Drive decisions around technologies, patterns and approaches to adopt in collaboration with your fellow engineers from other squads

What you bring:

• Experience designing, implementing and operating large scale and highly available microservices deployed to the cloud
• Experience building microservices with Docker, Scala and Reactive Programming.
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• An engineering skillset that is focused on quality and a test first philosophy, regardless of the activity
• An agile mindset where you will drive both your squad and the wider tribe towards better ways of working
• An inquisitive personality that is always looking for constant improvement opportunity

Added bonus if you have:

• Experience with Play Framework and Akka.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS
• Experience with Kafka or any other messaging oriented middleware
• Experience with reactive programming
• Exposure to the Payments industry domain (especially Cards and other payment schemes)
• Exposure to PCI-DSS

What we offer you

• Attractive benefits including private medical cover, dental cover, and travel insurance
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £85,000.00-£110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift

Education:

• Bachelor’s (preferred)

Experience:

• Software development: 5 years (preferred)