Development Lead – Payments (ICON IPF)

Overview

In this Development Lead role, you will architect and deliver payments-focused microservices within a cloud-based stack, guiding squads to build scalable, secure payment systems for major banking clients. You’ll work closely with product owners, architects, and DevOps to ensure quality and speed to market, while mentoring engineers and upholding engineering best practices. This position sits at the intersection of payments domain expertise and modern cloud-native delivery, offering impact across large-scale programs. You join a collaborative, innovation-driven firm focused on transforming client operations.

Pay / Benefits

• pension
• private health insurance
• employee discounts
• 20 days of holidays
• 2 days for charitable work
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of microservices-based applications using Java (v17+), Spring Boot, and related frameworks
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, enforcing architecture, coding standards, performance, security, and maintainability
• Collaborate with major banking clients and cross-functional teams in Agile Scrum environments
• Promote Test-Driven and Behavior-Driven Development to improve quality across the lifecycle
• Mentor junior/mid-level engineers, perform code reviews, and drive continuous improvement across the engineering team
• Operate within payments solutions and understand ISO 20022 payments, schemes and types
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS) and messaging (Apache Kafka) to enable scalable, resilient systems
• Engage with tools like Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability/CI/CD pipelines to support delivery

Key requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ hands-on experience implementing ICON IPF or similar payments framework in a banking environment
• 5-10 years as a Java engineer
• Strong experience with AWS cloud environments
• Solid experience with Apache Kafka and asynchronous messaging
• Proficiency with JMS, JSON, XML, Spring JPA, JTA, RESTful APIs
• Oracle and MongoDB experience
• Hands-on experience with TDD/BDD
• Experience working with major banking clients
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management in Agile Scrum
• Mentoring and code-review leadership

• communication
• leadership
• stakeholder-management
• Java (v17+)
• Spring Boot
• AWS

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