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Principal Software Engineer

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Role Pitch The role provides support to Agile Engineering Teams making a critical difference to project success, overall platform technical direction and operational resilience. The Principal Engineer will work as part of the team, primarily in analyzing, designing and implementing solutions on microservices framework.

Key Responsibilities Daily Duties and Main Responsibilities will include:

  • Working collaboratively with Agile Teams to understand the business domain and client requirements; drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality deliverables and technical solutions crossing a broad spectrum of technologies.
  • Designing and building solutions in the context of a legacy platform transitioning to microservice architecture.
  • Help establish the governance, guiding principles, design patterns, and service templates of microservices development in the Engineering Team
  • Champion the standards and guiding principles of microservices development, upholding best practices and relevant industry standards in the team
  • Advising Engineering and Product Management on Technical and Architectural policy and strategy.
  • Includes selecting and providing guidance on the appropriate design methodology (such as object-oriented, function-oriented, component-based) and strategies to be used with in a project.
  • Determining design alternatives with trade-off analysis.
  • Technical Leadership of Architectural and Engineering Initiatives
  • Adoption of new technologies
  • Identifying and refactoring poor performing or technically inferior areas of the Platform
  • Supporting and diagnosing complex platform issues with respect to performance, security, scalability, maintainability and reliability upon deployment
  • Facilitating code reviews to ensure the quality of the CloudPay code base adheres to agreed standards; identifying improvements to coding and technical standards
  • Coaching more junior engineers on technical strategy, coding standards and daily tasks

Description Attributes and Experience Required:

  • Extensive hands-on development experience, minimum of 10years with a strong foundation in OOP and Design Patterns
  • Proven experience setting the technical strategy, implementing and tuning enterprise scale applications.
  • Strong working knowledge of Java 8/11, Spring framework or Spring boot, JavaScript, JQuery and RESTful Web-Services
  • Spring Boot web, Security, Actuator, AMQP, JPA, batch and mail
  • Demonstrable experience in microservice architecture and design patterns, and implementing microservices
  • Experience in Saga design pattern and event-driven microservices
  • Experience in RabbitMQ (integration pattern) or any AMQP-based messaging
  • Experience working with relational (MySQL/MariaDB) or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) database management systems and ability to write complex queries.
  • Experience in API-driven development
  • Experience in application performance tuning and secure coding
  • Experience in leveraging containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and developing cloud-native applications
  • Comfortable in engaging with a wide range of roles (juniors, seniors, other stakeholders) to collaborate on solutions and communicate technical ideas
  • Soft skills needed:
  • Good team player
  • Excellent logical, analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Self-starter, able to own, prioritize and plan own workloads
  • Flexibility in working to tight timescales to meet release deadlines
  • The following would be an advantage:
  • Experience in Node.js, AngularJS, React-Redux, Vue.js
  • Background in Payroll, HR or other financial domains
  • Automation, Workflow Engines
  • Experience in Workflow Process (3066)

Benefits Package and Benefits:

  • Competitive annual salary and benefits package
  • 18 days annual leave plus public holidays
  • Birthday leave
  • Earned Wage Access (via CloudPay Now app)
  • Flexible remote working
  • 10 days sick leave
  • HMO
  • Personal and professional development opportunities
  • Friendly working environment

CloudPay is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.