Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on fullstack engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining production applications. Reporting to the Applications Lead, this role delivers secure, well-tested software, contributes to engineering standards, and supports the organisation's ISO27001:2022 compliance programme.

Key Responsibilities

Fullstack Development

• Design and build backend services and frontend components for enterprise production systems; write clean, tested, well-documented code.
• Develop RESTful APIs with proper versioning and documentation; integrate message queuing solutions to support event-driven data flows.
• Design database schemas and optimise queries; build containerised, cloud-native applications.
• Use AI coding tools to accelerate delivery in line with team guardrails, ensuring outputs meet code quality, security, and architectural standards.

Engineering Quality and Security

• Apply secure SDLC practices including SAST/SCA remediation, dependency hygiene, and secret scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold code review, testing, and documentation standards.
• Implement functional and non-functional test coverage (unit, integration, performance).

Delivery and Support

• Deliver committed sprint work, contribute to backlog refinement and estimation, and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues; participate in incident response and post-mortems.
• On-call availability is required to support 24x7 incident response coverage.

Requirements
Experience

• 8+ years of progressive fullstack software engineering experience building enterprise production systems.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure SDLC practices (SAST,SCA).
• Background in regulated industries (financial services or fintech preferred); ISO 27001:2022 exposure advantageous.
• Familiarity with MAS Technology Risk Management (TRM) Guidelines is a bonus.
• Familiarity with mobile application development (iOS or Android) is advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Backend: Golang, Java, Spring Boot, Python or equivalent
• Frontend: React, TypeScript or equivalent
• API design: RESTful design, versioning, and documentation
• Messaging and event streaming: Kafka, MQ or equivalent
• Database: Schema design and query optimisation (e.g. CockroachDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or equivalent)
• Containerisation: Docker
• CI/CD: Pipeline usage with SAST/SCA gates and secret scanning
• Cloud: Cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Testing: Functional and non-functional testing (e.g. Selenium, SonarQube, Gatling, JUnit, Jest, or equivalent)
• AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Developer/Solutions Architect) are advantageous.