Company Description

Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.

FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.

We are currently based in Sutton and we are expected to move to our new offices, in London Bridge in May 2024 

Job Description

As a Senior engineer at CAB, you’ll be part of a rapidly growing, cross-functional team working in an agile environment. You’ll work closely with architects, BAs, and Product Managers, so teamwork and cross-team collaboration are essential. Our current event-driven ecosystem is written in a mix of languages, including Java and Kotlin; we use Postgres as our primary datastore and React/JavaScript as our frontend. We are utilizing AWS cloud native technologies to power our infrastructure.

You’ll take ownership and responsibility for your services by helping define, build, test, support and run our core products. Your daily tasks will include but not only: ·

• Build new features to expand the capabilities of our platform.
• Research and design creative solutions to meet the challenges of delivering technology in developing countries
•  Identify and help fix performance bottlenecks across the whole stack
• Support the operation of our products.

Qualifications

• · Experience designing and building scalable, high-quality systems focused on distributed and low-latency processing using modern, cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with Java and/or Kotlin and Spring Boot.
•  A solid grasp of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
•  Experience with Event-driven architecture.
• Strong understanding and experience with containerisation, including ECS and EKS
• Knowledge of software best practices, like code reviews, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills ·
•  Experience in Web UI/ visualisation technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, and React.js.
• Experience with Python.
• Knowledge of the Axon framework.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and services

Additional Information

What's on Offer for the Candidate:

• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance - 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance - this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hut

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