{"description": " About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK's fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack), you'll design, build, and launch end-to-end features that directly impact thousands of business customers. You'll work across the stack and challenge conventional thinking to drive quality, performance, and stability. You'll thrive here if you love solving complex problems, shipping iteratively, and working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Principal Accountabilities

High-level:
• Deliver impactful features and enhancements. Ensure exceptional experience for our users.
• Keep the lights on for our platform.
• Find the best solution, challenge the consensus when you see a better path forward.
• Drive continuous improvements to the platform, processes, and tooling.

Detailed:
• Solutions: collaborate with Product to better understand the problem, brainstorm solutions, challenge assumptions and the status quo.
• Architecture: non-functional requirements, system design, peer reviews.
• Scoping: break work into tasks, estimate, refine and align with the team
• Implementation: write clean, testable, and maintainable code. Test thoroughly using a combination of unit tests, integration, e2e and manual exploratory testing.
• Deployment: create build and release pipelines, deploy infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, ship changes under feature flags.
• Maintenance: ensure observability, resolve problems, alerts, incidents and BAU requests.
• Drive the changes: retrospective analysis, RCA / Lessons learned, change requests.
• Share the expertise: mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing and feedback.

Personal Attributes & Experience
• 7+ years of experience in engineering roles.
• 3+ years of experience working with C# / .NET.
• 1+ years of experience working with React / TypeScript.
• Proficiency in cloud/distributed systems design and implementation.
• Strong unit, integration testing, mock frameworks and debugging skills.
• Experience with PaaS, ideally Azure.
• Experience with SQL (Azure SQL is a plus).
• Experience with Docker, containers and Kubernetes.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
• Options for flexible working
• Regular social activities
• Pension contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private health cover
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Don't tick every box?

Don't worry if you don't have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you'll be a good fit, we'd still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the '9-to-5' isn't right for everyone. That's why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We're a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.", "salary_raw": "Row(double=None, string=None)"}