CDSClear Lead Java Engineer

Description

The company provides financial markets infrastructure and data services. It is headquartered in the United Kingdom, has operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and employs 25,000 people, more than half of them in Asia Pacific.

It has supported financial stability and growth for more than 300 years and was named a Great Place to Work in 2024.

The IT team behind a critical clearing service is building a new engineering team in Bucharest. It will work with colleagues in London and Paris on new solutions.

This is a Manager-level role. You will analyse requirements and design, build and deliver well tested, high quality Java server-side solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own work across the full software delivery lifecycle, using Agile or traditional methods as the work requires.
• Build Java applications, their tests and the supporting infrastructure in development environments.
• Study business and functional requirements and turn them into designs.
• Work with global teams on changes to applications or their supporting infrastructure.
• Automate testing and deployment to keep delivery fast and reliable.
• Work within a regulated financial environment with a strong focus on cybersecurity.
• Provide out-of-hours support for releases or incidents on an occasional basis.

Requirements

• 5+ years of similar experience.
• Design and build Java backend services using Spring Boot and microservices architecture, with Maven or Gradle as build tools.
• Engineer services that meet corporate standards for resilience and information security.
• Use Ansible to configure and deploy applications.
• Manage software and debug issues confidently on Linux.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that run tests and/or deployments.

Conditions

The role is part of a new team based in Bucharest, working with colleagues in London and Paris.

Out-of-hours support is occasional and applies to releases or incidents.

The company is an equal opportunities employer and makes reasonable accommodation for religious practices and for mental health or physical disability needs.

Benefits

• Helpful: intermediate frontend skills in React and UI/UX, such as React.js, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Helpful: practical automated web testing with frameworks such as Cypress.
• Helpful: experience using AI tools to improve development productivity.
• Helpful: ability to design and build Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform.
• Helpful: experience engineering scalable, resilient Kubernetes clusters and supporting containerised applications running on them.
• Helpful: familiarity with code and dependency scanning, container scanning and static analysis tools.
• Helpful: experience using Artifactory in previous SDLC work.
• Helpful: experience defining Infrastructure as Code for AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, S3, EFS, Managed Kafka, ELB, Route 53 and other networking services.
• Helpful: experience using Terraform in a corporate environment through CI/CD pipelines.
• Competitive salary and a range of benefits.
• Personal development through formal and informal learning tools.
• 25 days of holiday a year, plus one additional day off for your birthday.
• Annual wellness allowance.
• Share Purchase Plan.
• Private medical insurance and a preventive medical subscription.
• Life insurance and a Pillar 3 private pension.
• Meal vouchers and flexible benefits.
• Bookster and volunteering events.
• Parents with at least one year's continuous service are entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, with the option to return in phases under company policy.