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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
The Senior Software Engineer will enhance cloud-native solutions and address complex technical challenges, focusing on system design, application development, and operational stability while ensuring automated mortgage decisions are efficient for major lenders. The role emphasizes collaboration, problem-solving, and adaptability in a dynamic environment.
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Hybrid working pattern - 2 days per week from London Bridge Office

At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home.

Do the best work of your life!

At Hometrack we are redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers, and consumers by providing the market-leading digital valuation, property risk decisioning, and property data service. Our key commercial and go-to market segment is financial services, primarily mortgage lenders, including nine of the top 10 mortgage providers.

Our customers use our products to make decisions, or to enable their consumers to make decisions. And few decisions are as important as someone’s home. Here at Hometrack, we are building the tools to make those decisions easier to make.

Our Product team is seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer to drive the evolution of our cloud-native solutions. You will work on complex technical challenges to enhance our market-leading solutions, which powers automated mortgage decisions for major UK lenders.

What we are looking for in a Senior Software Engineer

  • Practical, hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability.
  • Proficient in one or more OOPS programming languages(mainly .NET). 
  • Deep understanding of software applications and technical processes, with significant expertise in specific technical areas (e.g., SQL) and scaling within an enterprise cloud environment.
  • Capable of independently addressing design and functionality issues with minimal supervision.
  • Advanced knowledge of testing automation, multiple programming languages (such as Java and .NET), Infrastructure as Code (like Terraform).
  • Demonstrated ability to perform in high-pressure situations while adhering to strict budget constraints and meeting tight deadlines, all while prioritising team well-being.
  • Adopts a lean methodology focused on value, experimentation, and continuous improvement, prioritising collaborative problem-solving over mere problem identification. Effectively confronts challenges and conflicts, leveraging the team's diverse skills and resources to achieve desired outcomes.
  • Able to navigate uncertainty and work autonomously.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the capability to explain technical information to diverse audiences.

Nice to Have 

  • Mulesoft technologies and JAVA. 
  • Specflow Test Automation
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration.

We want our new joiners to relate to and champion our :

  • Build Together: you collaborate, you support and mentor colleagues
  • Set the Bar Higher: with your professional experience and personal passion
  • Know your Audience: you’re driven to solve customer problems
  • Own It: comfortable in a dynamic environment, with a degree of uncertainty
  • Re-imagine: comfortable learning new technologies and tools on the job

We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed.

Benefits

Benefits

  • Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
  • 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
  • Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
  • Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
  • Cycle to work and electric car schemes
  • Free Calm App membership
  • Enhanced Parental leave
  • Fertility Treatment Financial Support
  • Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
  • Gym on-site in London
  • 7.5% pension contribution by the company
  • Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
  • Talent referral bonus up to £5K

Top Skills

.Net
Java
SQL
HQ

Houseful London, England Office

The Cooperage, 5 Copper Row, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2LH

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