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Senior Java Engineer

Cardiff
Permanent

Posted

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid / Flexible Working

Salary: Up to £55,000 dependant on experience plus up to 20% annual bonus and benefits

Stability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe’s leading financial experts, sound interesting to you?

LDMS - About Us

Founded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

The Role

As part of the LDMS engineering team you will be passionate about your role, take a pragmatic approach to problem solving, deliver quality code to required timelines and be keen to build upon the product. As well as these attributes you will also be able to provide opinions while also being a team player who is willing to invest in the culture of LDMS.

Key Responsibilities:

From time to time, the key responsibilities may change or be adapted to the needs of the business; however, the below gives an overview of the key focus areas.

Develop software in a professional manner - producing stable applications aligned to user needs

Participate in Agile team ceremonies

Working with the team and Product Owners to support the definition of features and enhancements from a backend perspective

Delivery of backend aspects of features and enhancements using our tech stack

Contribution to our automated testing suites to ensure quality

Supporting in the roll-out and deployment of features from an end to end perspective

Help coach and mentor junior members of the team

Drive engineering standards & practices

Requirements

Key skills for this role are:

Experience developing REST APIs with Java (preferably Java 8+) and Spring Boot

Knowledge of SQL DB’s, preferably Postgres or Oracle

Experience working with modern Continuous Integration tooling such as Jenkins

Experience with version control systems such as Git

Experience with automated unit and integration testing

A passion for solving problems

Good verbal, written and communication skills

 Whilst desirable, but not essential, we would see the following skills as being useful for this role:

Experience with Docker or other containerization tools

Experience developing on the Cloud such as AWS, GCP, Azure

Experience with Typescript and React, Angular, or other similar Front End frameworks

Experience with WDIO or Selenium for automated browser testing

Financial services exposure

Experience of using AI in a development environment

What's important for us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech, but we recognise that the people we hire and bring together are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years, we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing; However, what we do have in common are our values:

Teamwork

Merit

Develop

Honest

Impactful

Integrity

They may look like corporate jargon, but they mean something to us. If you can relate to the above, get in touch, as there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

Benefits

Benefits

Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)

25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

1 day Birthday leave

1 day Charity leave

Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave

Private Health Insurance

EAP

Pension (3% / 5% contribution)

Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)

Monthly socials

Charity Events

Job Type: Permanent

Job ID: 1277000000000226798

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