Robert Walters
We are working with a global financial institution building a new engineering team focused on developing a large-scale internal platform within a critical business area. This will be a hands on engineering role.
This is a greenfield initiative focused on modernising and scaling internal technology capabilities through high-quality engineering and platform design. The environment is highly technical, hands-on, and focused on building reliable distributed systems within a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, distributed systems handling high volumes of financial and transactional data
- Contribute directly to architecture, system design, and hands-on software development
- Drive engineering best practices across automation, testing, observability, and performance
- Build resilient, production-grade systems with a strong focus on reliability and scalability
- Work across the full software development lifecycle from design through to production support
- Partner closely with engineering and product leadership to shape technical direction
- Mentor and support engineers within a small, high-performing team
Key Requirements
- Strong experience building large-scale distributed systems within financial services or other regulated environments
- Expert-level Java engineering experience, ideally within microservices and event-driven architectures
- Experience with Spring Boot and modern backend engineering practices
- Exposure to Angular or TypeScript within full-stack environments
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and high-availability systems
- Experience building automated, production-grade platforms with minimal manual intervention
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, CI/CD, and observability tooling
- Strong engineering mindset with a hands-on approach to development
- Interest in modern engineering tooling, including AI-assisted development workflows
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
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