Senior Java Engineer

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Senior Java Engineer

Job no: 502490
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London - Hybrid
Categories: Digital Development

Working at our iconic office in King's Cross, London and virtually via Microsoft Teams

Your new role at NewDay

We're on our journey to build a brand new, ambitious, green field fintech cloud platform at NewDay, and we're looking for some wonderful people to help us do it.

As a Senior Java Engineer in part of our Project Stratus engineering teams you'll be working with product owners, business analysts and engineers to implement features in our new cloud native software platform. We're working in modern Java 21 and Azure PaaS native, and want to grow honest, welcoming and inclusive teams and give them the autonomy and space to build the best platform that we can.

We believe in continuous delivery where we can, testing our own software, and operating it in production, and would like to find people that are equally excited by these approaches. This programme of work has the opportunity to transform NewDay and it's product offerings and set the technical tone for the organisation going forwards.

You'll deliver

• Working with the Stratus product owners to design and define our new lending platform.
• Working with Project Stratus engineers to design and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Hands-on programming work - coding, automated testing and shipping functionality.
• Participating in regular scrum ceremonies.
• Safeguarding the software quality of the work we ship.
• Potential to work on pipelines and infrastructure as code

What you'll bring

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:

• Senior level experience in modern Java applications written in Java 21
• Experience designing, building and testing RESTful JSON APIs over HTTPS
• An understanding of distributed systems design, including building for resilience and cloud architectural patterns
• Experience following Continuous Delivery
• Experience working in autonomous agile environments
• Experience of Containerization

And would love you to know or learn:

• Experience with Java 21
• Experience with Containers
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Dependabot, GitHub Packages, CodeQL
• Experience with OWASP ZAP
• Azure
• Kubernetes

About NewDay

We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.

We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.

Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We're an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don't discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we'll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture

We're focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working - with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.

We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.

At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you'll get extra days as you build your career with us.

NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you're in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.

Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).

Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.

We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.

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Advertised: 22 Aug 2024 GMT Daylight Time
Applications close: 22 Nov 2024 GMT Standard Time