As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies – from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors. We have been recognised for our engineering excellence and work side by side with our clients in an agile way to solve their most challenging problems. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT applications and innovative business models.

Who are we?

GFT are a modern company with a passion for technology that thrives on collaboration with our clients and celebrates success with our team. We are an organisation that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a ‘Great place to work’ in the UK. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organisation this position could be right for you.

Team

You will be developing front end (React) and back end (Java) applications for a tier one bank. You will have input on technical direction and work with the client to help build out their user interface, and backend requirements.

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer (primarily React and Java) to join the GFT Application Engineering team. The role will require you to bring technical excellence, both as a team member and a team leader, to a variety of client engagements. Our emphasis is to enable our clients to embrace new technologies & techniques, and to incorporate these into their software development practices. You must therefore have a strong technological interest, great interpersonal skills and remain up to date in the latest industry trends and opportunities.

Role Responsibilities

• Engagement on projects for GFT clients as a member of the GFT team
• Delivery of working software using modern approaches to software development
• Design of solution architectures to support project requirements
• Management of junior team members
• Contributing to the development of the Modern Applications Practice within GFT UK
• Supporting GFT sales opportunities, both for current and prospective clients

Competencies and Skills Needed

Mandatory Skills:

• Full SDLC experience using Agile & DevOps methodologies
• Experience with React and associated frameworks
• Experience with Java and associated frameworks
• Experience working with UI and UX tools
• Exposure to additional programming languages, across multiple platforms
• Microservices architecture and supporting toolsets
• Strong understanding of containers and container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
• Experience of multiple database & messaging technologies
• Development of cloud native applications on at least one cloud platform
• Knowledge of web related technologies and of network/web related protocols
• Development of applications to meet stringent non-functional requirements
• Broad understanding of new and emerging technologies

Desirable Skills:

• Prior experience of working with an IT consultancy
• Recognised as an SME in at least one area of software development
• Working on proposals for new client projects
• Presentation of technical topics at industry events
• Ability to deliver technical and functional training
   

Behavioural Skills:

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to be able to establish rapport with people at all levels
• Takes a proactive approach to work and can manage workload without close supervision
• Focuses on high standards of work and delivery of high-quality outcomes
• The ability to work in teams using agile processes & ceremonies, such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe
• A strong sense of ownership for both personal and team responsibilities
• Organised and tenacious, able to think ahead and establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others
• An ability to apply structured thinking, simplifying complex problems to the resolution of project challenges
• Able to design creative solutions, with the ability to establish and own a vision for GFT solutions
• Able to effectively handle uncertainty