Lead Software Engineer

at  Aker Systems

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. Aker builds and operates ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.
In 2022, Aker Systems was proud to win the ‘Scale up Business of the Year’ award by the British Business Excellence Awards. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ’One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track and was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.
Most recently in September 2021, we were successfully acquired by a new investor (Abry Partners) who have a deep industry expertise in our field to support us in the next part of our journey and as we continue to grow and diversify as a business.
We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you do your very best work.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.

As a Software Engineer, you will help lead the development of backend services for a government client leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies. This involves designing, developing, documenting and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.

• Design, develop, document and deploy new or enhanced features to our backend services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Actively participate in the team’s elaboration and estimation of user stories
• Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team’s momentum
• Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams; ensuring that others can cover for you, and that you can cover for them
• Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role;

• JAVA programming experience as the core language, including Spring Boot.
• Fluent in writing JAVA coding.
• Experience with Kafka or a similar platform.
• Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3
• Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews
• Working in Agile development and/or DevOps teams
• Using GitHub/GitLab for source control
• Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
• Experience in Big Data technologies
• Experience in Public Cloud services, such as AW