Senior API Engineer - Banking job in London

Senior API Engineer - Banking

An exciting opportunity exists for a Senior API Engineer at a leading bank. Our client is currently working on a leading digital transformation with the hopes of transforming their digital capabalities, driving innovation and delivering products in ever shortening cycles to help drive the continuous improvement of processes.

Location: London/ Work from home

Duration: 6 months rolling

Daily Rate: Markets rates INSIDE IR35

Key Responsibilities:

Work closely with Scrum teams to understand business requirements and build scalable APIs to support this
Hands on server side development with good working knowledge of client side
Responsible for the entire software development lifecycle, from build, deploy to on-going production support
Enjoy working with a team of engineers to solve interesting technical challenges
Provide support to the development teams
Ensure that the mobile services conform to the banks controls
Collaborate with a variety of teams for development and incident management
Actively participate in the Mobile Engineering Discipline and associated communities

Key Reequirements:

Experience developing web APIs for Mobile applications
Experience with continuous delivery of Mobile applications
Experience building scalable components with a Microservice architecture
Strong technical experience on server-side development (Java 8, Spring Boot, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, MuleSoft API Gateway)
Understanding and championing of functional programming paradigms and reactive programming (RxJava or similar framework)
Strong experience in continuous build/integration/deployment tools including Jenkins, Git and Jira
Exposure to monitoring tools (Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus or similar) and fault tolerance tools like Hystrix
Working knowledge of Python
Experience of Kotlin is advantageous
Experience working in Agile teams
Strong communication skills and a great team player
Troubleshooting skills
Performance testing

If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, apply now for an immediate review!