Position Overview & Specifications

Software/Principal Engineer

A technically minded individual
You'll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working code, working across the lifecycle of the system
Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
Developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure.
Liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.
Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

Required skills:

Experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit coding languages to solve complex problems.
Capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you'll demonstrate:

Developing software in Java, specifically as a backend developer, using microservice patterns, knowledge of async frameworks such as Project Reactor
Exceptional collaboration skills with the ability to work across diverse cross functional teams and a drive to deliver solutions to customers
Delivery of high quality software backed with a passion for testing to ensure that quality
Running workloads on public cloud and provisioning infrastructure using infrastructure as code

Job Type: Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months

Salary: £600.00-£650.00 per day

Benefits: