Senior Software Engineer
LendingCrowd
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
You are here: Home Careers Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Location: Edinburgh (hybrid) Are you an experienced software engineer with an inquisitive mind and a desire to solve problems? If so, this is an opportunity for you to make a real difference as part of a dynamic team of likeminded technologists within a fast-growing company. At LendingCrowd, we re challenging the market for business lending by doing things differently, and that s where you come in. We re breaking down our business platforms and re-engineering them with an event-driven microservices architecture, so we re looking for an innovative and adaptable Senior Software Engineer with cloud-native design skills who is keen to share and grow their knowledge and expertise within an exciting and ever-evolving business domain. The ideal candidate will have experience of using multiple modern software languages to build creative solutions. What s important is broad and deep development experience and the ability to adopt and use different languages and software tools to apply the right solution to the challenge in front of you. We re a rapidly growing company, constantly striving to raise our standards, so this is a great opportunity to be part of a genuine Scottish success story. You ll be a key member of a small agile team, working together to imagine, design, develop, test and deploy the software behind our key systems. About the role Reporting to our Technology Team Leader, this is a role for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in multiple software languages and experience of working with a cloud-native technology stack. As a key member of a small and dynamic team, you ll be responsible for: Designing, developing, testing, deploying, documenting and maintaining high-quality software Deep involvement with architecture and tooling decisions Sharing and growing knowledge Coaching and mentoring Junior Software Engineers Ensuring the security of the software stack and LendingCrowd applications Actively participating and engaging with the Technology team s meetings and agile practices Engaging proactively with business stakeholders to understand requirements About you In terms of knowledge, skills and experience, we would expect you to have: An extensive and demonstrable background in modern software engineering/development practice Expertise in multiple modern software languages preferably Java and React Experience of working within the cloud we currently use AWS Knowledge of modern DevOps practice and writing Infrastructure as Code Developing with a security-by-design mindset The ability to translate complex business needs into elegant technical solutions The ability to influence stakeholders, senior management and peers Experience of coaching and mentoring junior engineers It would also be beneficial if you have experience of: Working in the financial services sector Working in a scale-up business Ruby on Rails is beneficial but not necessary Reactive Programming Opportunities for further development Path to a leadership role within the team #J-18808-Ljbffr