Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

£100,000 – £115,000 + bonus + benefits

Central London, hybrid (2–3 days in office)

C# / .NET or Java · Azure · Microservices · Event-driven architecture

The opportunity Our client is a well-established UK bank serving personal, business and commercial customers. After a period of major transformation, it has a clear strategy and a significant engineering agenda: modernising core platforms, decoupling services and building first-class digital journeys.

They're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to take technical ownership within a cross-functional squad. You'll lead design, set engineering standards and mentor others – while staying hands-on with the code. It's a bank big enough for your work to matter to millions of customers, and small enough that your decisions are seen.

What you'll be doing

• Leading the technical design of features and services, working with Solution Architecture
• Building secure, resilient back-end services and APIs across payments, lending, onboarding and digital banking
• Breaking legacy capability into well-bounded, event-driven services and integrating with core banking and payment schemes
• Owning services in production: observability, incident response and root-cause fixes
• Setting the bar for code review, automated testing, CI/CD and infrastructure as code
• Mentoring engineers and influencing engineering practice beyond your own squad
• Working with product, QA, architecture and delivery partners to turn business needs into working software

What we're looking for

• 8+ years' commercial software engineering, with a clear track record at senior level
• Deep expertise in C# / .NET or Java, building distributed back-end services and APIs
• Strong system design skills: microservices, messaging (Kafka or similar), resilience patterns
• Hands-on cloud experience, ideally Azure, with containers and Kubernetes
• Mature engineering habits: automated testing, CI/CD, secure coding, infrastructure as code
• Experience leading technical design and mentoring other engineers
• Confident communicator with both engineers and business stakeholders

Great to have: UK financial services experience (payments, lending, core banking, Open Banking), legacy modernisation or cloud migration, and working with offshore delivery partners.

Our client welcomes applications from everyone and will make reasonable adjustments at any stage. If you don't meet every requirement but the role excites you, we'd still like to hear from you.