Principal AWS Backend Developer (Java)

Principal AWS Backend Engineer (Java)

Why Join Capco?

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We are/have:

• Experts across the Capital Markets, Insurance, Payments, Retail Banking and Wealth & Asset Management domains.
• Deep knowledge in various financial services offerings including Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.
• Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.

The Role

We are looking for engineers who want to play a key part in supporting the evolution of the Financial Services industry one project at a time. You will be expected to be a strong team player who prides themselves on delivering modern, first class cloud based platforms through practicing best in class Agile ways of working at all times.

As a Lead Engineer at Capco, you will:

• Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement
• Have expertise in a set of the team's domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems
• Able to work alone or with teams drawing on experience to recommend tooling and solutions aligning with organisational strategies. Influences organisation wide testing strategy
• Architects services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Guides teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design choices that minimise the cost of future changes
• Actively contributes to security designs based on the organisation's security strategy. Fosters a security first mindset across teams, and sets the example. Has advanced knowledge of key security technologies, protocols & techniques (e.g. TLS, OAuth, Encryption, Networks)
• Be comfortable managing engineers ensuring they are tracking the team's efficiency and quality of work, they assist in regularly adjusting processes and timelines to ensure high quality work is delivered
• Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to customers.
• Have played a role in the delivery of critical business applications and ideally customer facing applications.
• Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.
• Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment.
• Have a passion for being part of the engineering team that is forming the future of finance.

Job Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Analysis - Understand the current application infrastructure and recommend improvements.
• Best Practices - Define and document best practices and strategies for application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Migration - Migrate our infrastructure with zero downtime to a highly available and scalable environment.
• Monitoring - Set up a comprehensive monitoring stack to ensure system health and performance.
• Capacity Planning - Define service capacity planning strategies to ensure system reliability and efficiency.
• CI/CD Implementation -  Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS CI/CD stack.
• Infrastructure as Code -  Write infrastructure as code using CloudFormation/Terraform or similar tools.
• Database Technologies - Work with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Large-Scale Systems Design - Apply knowledge of large-scale systems design.
• Troubleshooting - Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Security Best Practices - Implement and follow strong security best practices, such as using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.
• Cloud Awareness - Stay updated on the latest AWS services, features, and best practices, incorporating them into cloud architecture and development processes.
• Team Collaboration -  Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and DevOps professionals, to architect and deploy AWS solutions that meet project requirements.

Required Skills

• Java Development - Expertise in Java 17 and above.
• Spring Boot - Proficiency with the Spring Boot framework.
• AWS Services - Deep understanding of AWS services and cloud solutions.
• Architecture Patterns - Experience implementing microservices, event-driven, CQRS and cloud-native architectures.
• CI/CD - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, particularly within the AWS ecosystem.
• Database Management - Proficiency in both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Message Brokers - Experience with Kafka.
• Testing - Ability to write various types of tests including unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Java Streaming - Core understanding of Java streaming and AWS integration.
• Infrastructure as Code - Experience with CloudFormation or similar tools for infrastructure management.
• Large-Scale Systems Design - Experience with designing large-scale systems.
• Distributed Systems Troubleshooting - Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Security Best Practices - Strong knowledge of security best practices, including the use of IAM Roles, KMS, etc.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency with Gitlab for CI/CD processes.
• Behaviour Driven Design - Experience writing automation test cases in Cucumber using Behaviour Driven Design (BDD).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional level certification required.

We offer:

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
• A flat structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
• Enhanced family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.