Job title: Full Stack Engineer
Job location: Sheffield, UK
Job type: Contract
Job mode: Hybrid
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Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Engineering or related majors
· Minimum of 8 years’ applied experience as an API engineer
· Strong experience in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc.
· More than 5 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware
· More than 8 years’ experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust
· Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
· Expertise in distributed system design including microservices, Springboot
· Experience working with Kafka, Docker, k8s, service mesh
· Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry
· Experience in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing
· Demonstrable knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI.
· Strong SQL coding abilities is preferred
· Experience of working in a financial institution, ideally in payments
· Ability to work independently and think out of the box
· The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
· Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success
· Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation
· Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally
· Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements