Senior Software Engineer - Merchant Solutions

In this role, you’ll join as a Senior Software Engineer on the ‘ Merchant Solutions’ team, which is part of the wider ‘ Pay’ engineering group.

Demonstrate proficiency in the team's domain and technology stack, providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and contributing to technical decision-making.

Proactively address technical debt by prioritising its resolution alongside feature development, ensuring maintainable, scalable, and high-quality codebases through regular refactoring and system improvements.

Take ownership of complex features and projects, working independently and collaborating with team members to drive development from concept to delivery.

Lead code reviews, set quality standards, and offer in-depth feedback to improve code quality across the team.

Partner with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, ensuring solutions are well-architected and aligned with business goals.

Focus on delivering reliable, maintainable software solutions and actively implements performance optimisations and resilience mechanisms.

Monitor and maintain services in production, diagnosing and resolving critical issues efficiently with minimal support.

Participate in the architecture and design of distributed systems, ensuring best practices are followed for reliability and scalability.

Take the initiative to improve the team's development processes and tooling, advocating for best practices and automation improvements.

Ensure consistency and quality in shared components and APIs.

Contribute actively to the team's knowledge base, lead learning sessions, and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Demonstrate ownership of the team's delivery pipeline, ensuring that code quality, testing standards, and deployment practices are continuously optimised.