Technical Engineer

Do you have experience of leading a Software Engineering team, using your hands‑on experience of Java and Spring Boot microservice development to deliver real change? If so, we may have the role for you!

We are looking for an experienced Technical Engineer to join our Enterprise Engineering development team. The team is responsible for the delivery and ongoing maintenance of YBS’ Transaction Monitoring solution.

This is an important leadership role within the team, being the primary technical contact for architecture, product owners, infrastructure, testing and release. You’ll be pivotal to providing technical leadership to develop colleagues, hands‑on expertise, and acting as a conduit between the Engineering community and key stakeholders across YBS through the translation of requirements into technical designs.

This is a hybrid role with remote working, but some onsite presence in our Bradford and Leeds based offices will be required.

As Technical Engineer
, you will be accountable for all aspects of technical quality within the development team, and as a technical hands‑on role this covers:

• Technical Leadership - Develop API’s and Java Spring Boot Microservices that will underpin our Transaction Monitoring Services, and act as a key point of escalation on all technical aspects
• Technical Design - leading the team in creating (and documenting) designs which deliver the business requirements, to the agreed service levels. Understanding scope and adapting the builds to changing demands, ensuring it remains fit for purpose. Establishing and maintaining clear documentation standards is also essential
• Planning - Contribute to resource planning and estimation to ensure the right developers are in place with the right capabilities to succeed by addressing hotspots and coaching as required to deliver
• Implementation leadership - Working alongside the Service Lead (Development Team Leader) to support engineers in implementing builds safely and in line with established engineering practices to protect production services. This includes ensuring the team consistently applies unit testing, integration testing, and code quality checks within CI pipelines and workflows
• Release & Deployment - Responsible for deployments, collaborating with our Dev Ops teams to ensure quality delivery aligned to business outcomes
• Assurance - Accountable for providing assurance that implementation is built right, to service levels and follows YBS’s development standards
• Collaboration - Work closely with Architects, Dev Ops Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and the engineering chapter leads to drive the YBS Engineering capability forward

You’ll have hands‑on experience of Java and Spring Boot microservice development. In addition, you will —

• Have demonstrable experience leading a modern software engineering team. Providing clear direction and expectations to developers and able to identify training and upskilling opportunities
• Be comfortable switching between hands‑on development and technical leadership oversight, depending on the needs of the project
• Have experience of integrating new technologies and creating standards of usage within teams
• Be a great communicator finding ways for non‑technical stakeholders to understand technical concepts
• Be a strong influencer and negotiator to bring people on‑board to new ways of thinking
• Experience working within a regulated financial environment
• Strong knowledge of established and emerging technologies and platforms used within modern payments applications including:
  • Restful Design, working with API gateway and management platforms (Azure API Management)
  • Containers and Container Orchestration Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Continuous Integration Pipelines - Git Lab, Jenkins.
  • Java Spring Boot Microservices
  • IaC scripting & concepts (Bicep or Terraform preferred but not essential)

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

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