Senior Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Deliver impactful features and enhancements, ensuring exceptional experience for users
• ▹Keep the lights on for the platform
• ▹Find the best solution, challenge the consensus when a better path is seen
• ▹Drive continuous improvements to the platform, processes, and tooling
• ▹Solutions: collaborate with Product to better understand the problem, brainstorm solutions, challenge assumptions and the status quo
• ▹Architecture: non-functional requirements, system design, peer reviews
• ▹Scoping: break work into tasks, estimate, refine and align with the team
• ▹Implementation: write clean, testable, and maintainable code; test thoroughly using a combination of unit, integration, e2e and manual exploratory testing
• ▹Deployment: create build and release pipelines, deploy infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, ship changes under feature flags
• ▹Maintenance: ensure observability, resolve problems, alerts, incidents and BAU requests
• ▹Drive the changes: retrospective analysis, RCA / lessons learned, change requests
• ▹Share the expertise: mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing and feedback

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of experience in engineering roles
• ▹3+ years of experience working with C# / .NET
• ▹1+ years of experience working with React / TypeScript
• ▹Proficiency in cloud/distributed systems design and implementation
• ▹Strong unit, integration testing, mock frameworks and debugging skills
• ▹Experience with PaaS, ideally Azure
• ▹Experience with SQL (Azure SQL is a plus)
• ▹Experience with Docker, containers and Kubernetes

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
• ▹Options for flexible working
• ▹Regular social activities
• ▹Pension contributions
• ▹Discretionary bonus scheme
• ▹Private health cover
• ▹Life assurance
• ▹Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

About the company

Allica Bank is the UK's fastest growing company and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Its purpose is to help established SMEs — one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech. Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities, representing over a third of the economy, yet have been largely neglected by both traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.