Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our development team as we build the latest innovation from Strategic Imperatives; Elevate . We are now at a pivotal point in the development of the product as we look to scale and develop the product whilst continuing to innovate and keep us light years ahead of our competition. To succeed in this role, you will be a team player with a keen eye for detail and a creative problem solver with a “get things done” attitude. You should be eager to help and share your knowledge, with the passion for learning and improving yourself and others. Responsibilities Understand and question the underlying business goals/requirements. Collaborate with others through whiteboarding and pair programming sessions. Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders and customers. Produce clean code and practise merciless refactoring supported by unit/acceptance testing. Deliver (design, code, deploy and monitor) high quality software. Refactor, troubleshoot and upgrade existing software. Offer constructive feedback to colleagues. Receive constructive feedback with a growth mindset. Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development. Share your knowledge by running sessions and creating supporting documentation. Continuously find ways to improve something, anything, everything: KAIZEN. Experience Required Must have: Experience in delivering scalable, fully tested cloud native solutions - particularly with AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS). Strong functional programming skills in Java, Spring boot, Docker, Git, OpenAPI . Proficiency with test-driven development ( TDD ). Good-to-have: Infrastructure as Code - Terraform. CI/CD, DevOps practices, Kubernetes. Selenium and/or Cucumber Soft Skills: Strong team player with a drive to improve both themselves and the team. Eager to learn, help others and share knowledge. Ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment. Able to work on an international scale with a variety of cultures. A flexible but organised work style. Excellent written and verbal communication in English. About us Strategic Imperatives are recognised as the UK market leaders in fixed line provisioning with award-winning multi-carrier solutions for Local Loop Unbundling, Wholesale Line Rental, Fibre and traditional broadband as well as the channel premier SaaS billing platform. Our products are used by 200 of the UK’s largest communication providers to manage millions of lines, traditional broadband and fibre connections. Our SaaS billing platform Elevate, has shaken the stagnant billing market and brought an outdated process up to date and into the heart of our customer's processes. Our most recent innovation is the wholesale fibre aggregation gateway, The Fibre Café. This is a ground-breaking solution to the challenge of connecting multiple AltNets and Service Providers rapidly and cost-effectively. It eliminates the “spaghetti” approach to integration and provides a single interface underpinned by a modern API, common processes and a unified order journey. Who will you work with? Our international development team spans the UK, Ireland and Lisbon. Our goal is to have a constant focus on delivering business value through delivering useful features earlier and with less wasted effort. We believe in an inclusive working environment where everyone feels they belong without having to conform, that their contribution matters and they are able to perform to their full potential, no matter their background, identity or circumstances.