Join us as a Principal Engineer, Java Microservices

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• With your software development background, you'll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
• You'll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, Java Microservices you'll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You'll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You'll also be:

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

The skills you'll need

You'll come with significant experience in software engineering at scale, both in terms of team and complexity and understand the complexity of running scaled software and infrastructure as well as distributed compute systems. Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you'll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing best practice, especially around security, scalability, resilience, observability and performance.

Additionally you'll come with experience of infrastructure and cloud technologies that support API hosting, including API gateways, load balancing, and security solutions such as WAF and DDoS protection

You'll also need:

• Strong expertise developing applications in Java, using Test-Driven Development (TDD) and associated testing frameworks, including mocking and stubbing tools
• The ability to run and support containerised workloads, including orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational performance management
• Experience designing resilient systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and failure recovery
• Experience implementing modern engineering practices that support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Knowledge and experience off high volume transaction processing and load management within large-scale customer facing environments

Hours
35

Job Posting Closing Date:
22/07/2026

Ways of Working:Hybrid