Java Engineer - Mid Level

Location: Anywhere (UK) - Home Based, Edinburgh, London

Salary - £35000 - £65000

In this role you will work in a cross-functional team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than be handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have great opportunities to work on challenging problems.

About us:

Modulr is a fintech scale-up that is breaking new ground within the payments sector. We are in a digital age when businesses need to move money 24/7 instead of operating within regular banking hours. Companies are under mounting pressure to manage their cashflow, control their costs, comply with regulations, and handle complex supplier, customer and employment payment arrangements. Modulr develops cutting-edge API-first solutions that enable businesses to overcome these challenges and take control of their money. 

Some of our key achievements:

• Ranked 42nd in Deloitte’s UK Technology Fast 50 companies in 2021
• Modulr ranked 18 on LinkedIn’s 2019 Top Startups List in UK.
• Named an official Best Workplace by Great Places to Work in 2020.
• Ranked as the second fastest growing tech company in the UK by Dun & Bradstreet.
• Awarded £10 million from the BCR Fund to further develop our innovative product.
• Recently received £9m in funding from PayPal Ventures.
• Five years old, Modulr has offices in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Amsterdam.
• We have processed over 80m transactions to date with a value in excess of £50 billion of business payments.
• We are multi-award winning and want to keep creating a world class product.
• Recently won ‘Best Initiative from an SME’ category at the Card and Payments Awards.

About our culture and values:

At Modulr we are focused on building autonomous squads that are focused on working in the best possible way. We operate in a tribes and squad model with each area focused on a particular growth area. Each squad is small and cross-functional. We have big ambitions and have many interesting challenges ahead.

As an organisation we are built on the premise of 4 core values:

• Build the extraordinary
• Own the opportunity
• Make giant strides
• Achieve it together

This is The Modulr Way that helps drive what we do every day.

The Financial Services tribe at Modulr has a vision to be the most compelling payments proposition for our partners and customers, giving them the competitive advantage by putting payments at the heart of what they do. 

Our strategy is to provide our customers with seamless connectivity into payment schemes both domestically and overseas no matter where they're based. 

Taking the title of being the first non-Bank or Building Society to offer Confirmation of Payee, direct access to core UK payment schemes and early access to salary payments are just a few examples of how we're also striving to be at the forefront of core UK payments, European payments and payment innovation.

Our other tribes include:

Cards and Ops Tooling – Focused on our Virtual and Physical Card offerings and our internal tools for our operation teams.
Channels – Focused on the Small + Medium Enterprise market from client onboarding to integrating with third-party accountancy integrations and our customer portals.

About the tech:

static void  (Tech tech) {

        String stack = switch (tech) {

            case ARCHITECTURE -> "Micro Services";

            case BUILD_TOOLS  -> "Gradle";

            case CACHE -> "Redis";

            case CLOUD -> "AWS";

            case FRAMEWORKS -> "Spring Boot";

            case INFRASTRUCTURE -> "Terraform, EC2, Kubernetes";

            case LANGUAGE -> "Java 11";

            case MQ -> "Rabbit";

            case ORM -> "Hibernate";

            case SCHEMA -> "Liquibase, Postgres";

            default                 -> {

                logger.info("Oops! We haven't selected this tech yet, come help us decide!);

            }

        };

        logger.info("%s : %s%n", tech, stack);

    }

 :

• Experience with one or more backend programming language e.g Java, Golang, C#
• Experience with Java 8+, Spring and Hibernate will be beneficial
• Awareness and understanding of microservice architecture would be beneficial
• Experience with RDBMS technologies such as PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of OOP and design patterns.
• Understanding of REST API design
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Junit, Cucumber, Mockito
• Experience with DevOPs technologies is beneficial e.g Docker, Kubernetes, BASH

About you:

• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, appropriate judgement, and decision-making skill and strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to effectively manage timelines and deliverables
• Commitment to collaboration and teamwork, clear and responsive communication
• You are a self-started, motivated team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• You have a growth mindset and a commitment to self-improvement
• You love learning new technologies and skills

About the role:

• Design, develop, analyse, document and support testing of products, systems or subsystems
• Coordinate with team members to identify software needs and solutions
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change
• Work in an agile environment
• Document best practices, guides, systems design, reference architectures and implementations
• Participate in design and code reviews