Role Overview
The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on fullstack engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining production applications. Reporting to the Applications Lead, this role delivers secure, well-tested software, contributes to engineering standards, and supports the organisation's ISO27001:2022 compliance programme.
Key Responsibilities
Fullstack Development
Design and build backend services and frontend components for enterprise production systems; write clean, tested, well-documented code.
Develop RESTful APIs with proper versioning and documentation; integrate message queuing solutions to support event-driven data flows.
Design database schemas and optimise queries; build containerised, cloud-native applications.
Use AI coding tools to accelerate delivery in line with team guardrails, ensuring outputs meet code quality, security, and architectural standards.
Engineering Quality and Security
Apply secure SDLC practices including SAST/SCA remediation, dependency hygiene, and secret scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
Participate in code reviews and uphold code review, testing, and documentation standards.
Implement functional and non-functional test coverage (unit, integration, performance).
Delivery and Support
Deliver committed sprint work, contribute to backlog refinement and estimation, and mentor junior engineers.
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues; participate in incident response and post-mortems.
On-call availability is required to support 24x7 incident response coverage.
Requirements
Experience
8+ years of progressive fullstack software engineering experience building enterprise production systems.
Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure SDLC practices (SAST,SCA).
Background in regulated industries (financial services or fintech preferred); ISO 27001:2022 exposure advantageous.
Familiarity with MAS Technology Risk Management (TRM) Guidelines is a bonus.
Familiarity with mobile application development (iOS or Android) is advantageous.
Technical Skills
Backend: Golang, Java, Spring Boot, Python or equivalent
Frontend: React, TypeScript or equivalent
API design: RESTful design, versioning, and documentation
Messaging and event streaming: Kafka, MQ or equivalent
Database: Schema design and query optimisation (e.g. CockroachDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or equivalent)
Containerisation: Docker
CI/CD: Pipeline usage with SAST/SCA gates and secret scanning
Cloud: Cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Testing: Functional and non-functional testing (e.g. Selenium, SonarQube, Gatling, JUnit, Jest, or equivalent)
AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent)
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Developer/Solutions Architect) are advantageous.