Backend Software Engineer (Java) | Payments / Financial services

Company: Be | Shaping the Future UK
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We are partnering with a leading technology-driven organisation operating within the Financial Services, FinTech and Payments sector to hire several experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and enhancing customer-facing products used at scale. You’ll be involved in designing, developing and operating modern, cloud-based applications, collaborating with product, architecture and engineering colleagues to deliver resilient and scalable solutions.

Experience within Financial Services, FinTech or Payments environments is essential.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing, building and enhancing modern software applications and services
  • Developing high-quality, maintainable and reusable code
  • Contributing to microservices-based architectures and distributed systems
  • Building and supporting customer-facing applications used by large user populations
  • Driving software quality through automated testing and continuous improvement
  • Monitoring application health, performance and operational reliability
  • Managing deployments and supporting production environments
  • Investigating and resolving production incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes
  • Contributing to architectural discussions and solution design
  • Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices, delivery processes and system performance
  • Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical technology solutions

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

  • Experience with Spring Boot and microservices architectures
  • Experience building customer-facing applications
  • Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
  • Strong backend engineering expertise and a solid understanding of distributed systems
  • Experience delivering large-scale applications, ideally supporting 10,000+ users
  • A track record of delivering measurable project outcomes and business impact
  • Experience operating services in production environments
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical and critical-thinking skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Kafka
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Continuous Delivery practices
  • Payments industry experience

Full-Stack Candidates

Whilst backend expertise remains the highest priority, we are also keen to hear from engineers with full-stack experience. Candidates with a combination of Java backend development and React.js frontend development will be considered, particularly where they have strong backend credentials and experience delivering end-to-end solutions.

Successful candidates will typically demonstrate:

  • Experience working within Financial Services, FinTech or Payments organisations
  • Ownership of systems throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Experience supporting live production systems
  • A pragmatic approach to software design and architecture
  • Evidence of improving systems, processes or engineering practices
  • A collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within agile teams

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
  • Typically 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience, or equivalent
  • Experience of developing enterprise-scale backend applications

Why Apply?

  • Join a highly regarded organisation within the Financial Services and Payments sector
  • Modern cloud-native technology environment
  • Opportunity to influence architecture, engineering quality and platform evolution

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Posted: September 29th, 2026