Discover. A brighter future.

With Discover, you’ll have the chance to make a difference at one of the world’s leading digital banking and payments companies. From Day 1, you’ll do meaningful work you’re passionate about, with the support and resources you need for success. We value what makes each employee unique and provide a collaborative, team-based culture that gives everyone an opportunity to shine. Be the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future, while building the future you want, here at Discover.

Job Description 

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

We embrace change and evolution, both in our staff and systems. We are building new payment systems that allows us to utilise modern technologies (Cloud, Big Data, Open Source, Event driven real time processing) and approaches to delivery (Scaled Agile, CI/CD, TDD + BDD) that will enable us to produce software and systems to support our business and adapt to change within the fast paced FinTech world.

We want you to love where you work and thrive in your career. Our culture inspires innovation, teamwork, and growth, so we can make a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

We are looking for multiple experienced Lead Software Developers in the UK. The successful candidate(s) will be primarily focused on supporting and guiding the team during all phases of the development life cycle to design, develop and maintain scalable performant enterprise payments solutions to fit business needs. Our enterprise payments solutions consist of one or more of the following: batch processing, real time data/event streaming, APIs, micro services, NoSQL or relational databases and underpinned by DevOps automation. You will be working directly with business partners to understand business requirements then collaboratively design solutions and lead them from inception to production within the agile team.

What You’ll Do

As part of our technology domain, you’ll:

• Lead Agile-focused software development teams to help our organization drive towards emerging technologies. While primarily providing hands-on development work, you’ll also mentor junior-level software developers.
• Leverage your leadership skills to help shape our business and technology outcomes to meet customer and partner needs.
• Create and break-down product/platform efforts into successful execution-ready plans.
• Contribute to the developer experience by leveraging the latest industry technologies to enhance current solution patterns and define new ones.  
• Provides specialised expertise and applied knowledge on all aspects of Data Services to support a new and consolidated set of cross network applications.

How You’ll Do It

• Develops solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity as highly skilled with extensive proficiency
• Java JEE coding, unit testing, system testing and development work for data services applications
• In depth Spark development experience with the ability to provide technical direction to more junior developers as well as assist with planning and design of components.
• Knows and uses fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures to solve problems within primary field of expertise
• Capable of independent working with minimal supervision
• Writing Technical design documentation (high and low level) as required
• Refers to policies and practices for guidance.
• Wide latitude for independent judgment and decision making.
• Ensure quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development, and testing.
• Perform technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.  
• Deliver technology solutions that support business goals.
• Partner with product owners to understand business requirements, evaluate features, and translate application specifications into workable technical solutions.
• Support technical initiatives and provide team with input into best practices.
• Oversee and review development activities of highly-complex global teams, consisting of both full-time staff and contractors. 
• Maintain application software and systems.
• Test and mitigate risks for all projects and releases
• Provide leadership and guidance to junior-level software developers to enhance their growth and help them achieve objectives.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field i.e. Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Demonstrable years of experience as a Lead Software Developer with Java applications.

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related field i.e. Computer Science or Information Technology
• In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of software developer/engineering experience with Java applications
• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization 
• Time spent working for an organization in either the financial services or technology space 
• Self-motivated, Team motivator and Team player
• Awareness of emerging trends in software engineering
• Relevant experience of agile technology teams with applied knowledge of Kanban, Agile Scrum and SAFe
• Hands on coding experience with Java, Python, or another modern language.
• Exposure to modern software development practices and technology stack (see tech stack list below)
• Identify and propose improvements for quality deliverables
• Demonstrates reliability and dependability for the team, displays self-awareness, collaboration and ability to improve based on feedback from others.
• Agile Experience, Jenkins and Chef Experience beneficial.
• Experience with data pipelineing coding techniques that are commonly used in streaming development.
• Experience of developing and implementing business critical projects of large scope and technical complexity.
• Possess the judgement to plan and accomplish goals with minimal supervision.
• Clear and effective written and verbal English with the ability to prepare and communicate high level application designs and concepts to management and peers.

Our Tech Stack

• Java
• Spring Framework (Boot)
• React, AngularJS, Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS, Redux, React Testing Library, Cypress, Test Café, Cross Browser Testing, Protractor, Storybook, NodeJS, Express, Okta
• Git/GitHub, Nexus
• Junit, Mockito, Assertj, Wiremock, Cucumber
• Jenkins, Gradle, Ansible and Groovy
• PCF, OCP, Linux, VMware
• Restful API’s and microservice architecture
• MariaDB, Postgres
• Apache Geode (GemFire), Redis
• Apache Storm, Kafka, HBase (Highly Available variant)
• Spark-Streaming
• HDFS native API and shell commands
• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
• IntelliJ, Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite (STS)
• JSON processing and validation

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What are you waiting for? Apply today!

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

• Salary up to £55,000 dependant on experience
• .NET / C# / SQL / Web API
• Remote working options
• Excellent benefits package
• To apply or to find out more, please call 07736 920 082 or email

  Sally.butler@searchability.com

• .NET / C# / SQL / Web API
• Knowledge of SOLID principles

• Salary up to £55,000 dependant on experience
• .NET / C# / SQL / Web API
• Remote working options
• Excellent benefits package
• To apply or to find out more, please call 07736 920 082 or email

  Sally.butler@searchability.com

• .NET / C# / SQL / Web API
• Knowledge of SOLID principles

• Salary up to £55,000 dependant on experience
• .NET / C# / SQL / Web API
• Remote working options
• Excellent benefits package
• To apply or to find out more, please call 07736 920 082 or email

  Sally.butler@searchability.com

• .NET / C# / SQL / Web API
• Knowledge of SOLID principles

We're looking for a talented SeniorEmbedded Software Engineer, with a proven track record of software development using C++ and/or Java in an embedded environment, to work on cutting-edge embedded software projects, as a part of an agile team.

How You'll Spend Your Time:

You will work in an agile environment reporting to a Group Lead or Project Manager and will have considerable exposure to our clients and other partners. You'll be a key part of planning, design, development, debugging and integration of embedded software modules for cutting edge broadcast and internet TV receivers (set-top boxes). You'll create new features while also supporting the C++ debugging team, which will be around a 60/40 split of your time. Most importantly, your work will help deliver a much-needed service for society in lockdown – quick and easy access to some of the World’s best digital TV services.

What You'll Need to Bring:

• Strong experience with C, C++ or Java in an embedded Linux or Android environment
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Experienced developing and debugging multithreaded and/or multi-process code
• Ability to understand complex issues and discuss them via phone, email and other methods
• Flexible, proactive, can-do approach

You'll Be Working with:

Experience with any of the following is useful, although not required

Object Orientated programming in C++ or Java | UML diagramming | C++11 | STL or frameworks such as Qt | Embedded or mobile Java | JNI | Linux kernel | drivers | GCC | GDB | TDD and Unit Testing frameworks such as Google Test | Mockito | JUnit and similar | Software development for consumer electronics or TV | Audio, Video & TV standards | Networking protocols and standards including TCP/IP | Wi-Fi | UPnP | DLNA | HLS or MPEG-DASH | Agile, Scrum methodologies

What we'll give you in return:

• A competitive salary which will grow with your career
• A twice-yearly company bonus scheme
• Opportunities to train, develop and grow, as well as learn from talented colleagues
• 25 days' holiday as standard, rising an extra day for every calendar year you stay with us (up to a maximum of 31 days)
• 5% matched contributory pension
• Access to Headspace meditation app
• Flexibility in your working hours and home office
• Free on-site parking, rail season ticket support, and a cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the area

About Us:

Consult Red is a trusted partner to the digital media industry and beyond, driving innovation and delivering support through the entire product development journey.

We apply our cutting-edge experience in product development, hardware, embedded and cloud technology to help companies in all sectors to deliver connected devices and systems.

Over the last several years, we've grown from being an embedded specialist in the media sector to a provider working with companies in other industries such as Energy and Healthcare. We've applied our cutting-edge experience and talent in product development, hardware, embedded and cloud technology to help customers deliver connected devices and systems.

We take good care of our engineers not only salary and benefits-wise but also when it comes to their place of service delivery. Our teams work from fully equipped laboratories in Yorkshire in the UK, Wroclaw in Poland and Los Angeles, California.

And currently, having taken their equipment, office chairs and favourite coffee cups with them, our team members #stayathome and work safely from there.

Our Recruitment Process:

Once you submit your CV, we'll send you a short online form asking you to confirm a couple of things. This will then go directly to the Hiring Manager review. We'll often do a short first stage telephone interview to find out more about you and to check that the role would be a good fit for your requirements.

Then, if you progress to interview stage, we'll try to cover off everything we can in one Skype sitting, to make the process quicker for you - which means our interviews can be slightly longer than average. We hope you'll leave the meeting with a real feel for the job and what it's like to work with us.

So what are you waiting for? If this sounds like what you've been looking for, click 'apply' to send us your details and we'll be in touch really soon.

S O F T W A R E   D E V E L O P E R            ( R I G H T S A P P )
Location:                         Liverpool with 1 WFH day per week (post-pandemic)
Contract terms:              Full-time, permanent
Reporting to:                  Product Lead
Salary:                             Depending on experience
Company Group             www.sentricmusicgroup.com
website: 
Product website:            www.rights-app.com
Please note: We do NOT accept applications via this website's application form.
Application instructions:

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2. Please submit your CV and Covering Letter to careers@sentricmusic.com with email subject line “Software Developer” ASAP.
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4. (Optional) Please complete our Equal Opportunities Monitoring form: https://forms.gle/V8iR2CgEnxV21NqH8
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Early applications advised as interviews will commence as and when applications are received until a suitable candidate has been found.
Role Summary
Utilising our stack of the latest technologies, the Software Developer will work together with our forward-thinking Product Development team based in our Head Office in Liverpool. We practice Agile methodologies and the Software Developer will be crucial to building new features to our recently launched music royalty accounting software; RightsApp.
Company & Recruitment Background

Sentric Music Group - the parent company of RightsApp - is a rapidly expanding music publishing company with 70+ employees based across our offices in Liverpool, London, Hamburg, Palma, New York and LA. The company handles copyright and royalty administration for a large client base consisting of songwriters, record labels and music catalogue owners. Sentric Music Group is in an exciting phase of significant investment and expansion into new markets, and its sub-company RightsAppis central to the Group’s future development plans.
RightsApp has generated significant market interest and is transforming the traditional models for royalty collection and accounting – it is instrumental in achieving our goal of offering fair and transparent publishing solutions to the music industry.

Our SaaS platform - written using .NET MVC 5, .NET Core 3.x, Entity Framework 6.2, C# 8,  Amazon Web Services technologies and MySQL - has been developed with a high standard of code. Best practices are of true importance to our Product Development team and the Senior Developer will be in a prime position to elevate the product to the next level; implementing and championing new / best practices across the team.

Equal opportunities statement
We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We therefore welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.

Our Current Tech

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• Visual Studio 2019/Rider, ReSharper, Git (hosted on GitHub), Fork, Jenkins, AWS Codedeploy (YAML) and Slack Integrations.
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• Windows 10 client machines, AWS RDS MySQL/Aurora, AWS Autoscaling, AWS EC2, S3, SES, SQS, Lambda, AWS Batch, ECS and Fargate.
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• Docker using Linux in-line with .NET Core applications.
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• Elastic stack and Kibana.
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• Jira and Confluence are some of the additional tools we use to keep track of our work.
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Role responsibilities

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• Work independently and in liaison with product stakeholders and development team, to deliver a first-class platform
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• Part-take in developer testing and work alongside our Automation Analyst for thorough release coverage
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• Actively contribute to sprint focusing, planning, retrospectives and other meetings & workshops.
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• Identify areas of improvement; suggest and implement changes to workflow or processes where necessary
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• Arrange opportunities to share your knowledge where it adds value
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• Contribute with creative input within the development team by adding to our already defined architecture, design rules and design language
  
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Experience

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• .NET MVC 5, Entity Framework 6.2, C# 8.0
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  .NET Core 3.x

  
  
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  Good C# experience with solid understanding of more advanced concepts such as Delegates/Events, Lambda/LINQ, Expressions, Async/Await, Multithreading along with awareness of performance, memory usage and alternative algorithms.

  
  
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  Database skills MySQL

  
  
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• Javascript skills JQuery, KnockoutJS, Promises
  
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• Testing and mocking experience. We use NUnit3 and Moq and write extensive unit tests in our main solution but also write integration tests using NUnit3 / Specflow.
  
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• Existing knowledge of the core AWS services would be beneficial.
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Personal Qualities

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• Driven and enthusiastic about working with a new product in a collaborative work environment
  
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• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to achieve overall team success
  
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•  Effective communicator, confident to bring your ideas forward
  
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• Excellent time-keeper and ability to manage your own workload
  
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• Analytical approach to problem-solving and troubleshooting issues
  
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• A keen eye for detail - identifying ways to optimize own and/or team performance
  
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• Motivated to excel in your role through self-learning and coaching by Lead Developer and Product stakeholders
  
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• Adaptable and willing to embrace new technologies, languages and process improvements
  
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• Open-minded and willing to share and take onboard knowledge within the team
  
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• Ambitious and professional yet appreciating a relaxed office environment and social company culture
  
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• Passion for music is meriting
  
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• Must have the right to work in the UK, otherwise application will not be considered.
  
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Employee Package

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• 1 WFH day per week once we return to work in the office.
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• Perkbox employee benefits membership, offering discounted rates at gyms, restaurants, high-street shops and online retailers.
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• Funded company social calendar.
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• Christmas holiday shut-down period added on top of holiday entitlement.
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• Employment Assistance Programme (EAP) including health, financial and counselling support for employees as well as their families/partners.
  
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Early applications advised as interviews will commence as and when applications are received until a suitable candidate has been found.

• C# / .NET/ AngularJS/ JavaScript
• Salary up to £55k
• Remote working options
• Benefits Package
• To apply please call 07736920082 or email

  sally.butler@searchability.com

• Experience of working with C# .NET Framework
• Sufficient experience in technical roles on software development teams

• Experience with JavaScript, AngularJS
• Understanding and experience with cloud hosted infrastructure services such as Azure and Amazon Web Services for applications

sally.butler@searchability.com

• Salary up to £75,000 dependant on experience
• Java / SQL / JavaScript Frameworks / Python
• Liverpool office- remote working options
• Bespoke training, tooling and development to promote career progression
• To apply or to find out more, please call 07736920082 or email

  sally.butler@searchability.com

• Experience with JMV related technologies
• Java / SQL / JavaScript Frameworks / Python
• SC Cleared or Clearable

• C# / .NET/ AngularJS/ JavaScript
• Salary up to £50k
• Remote working options
• Benefits Package
• To apply please call 07736920082 or email

  sally.butler@searchability.com

• Experience of working with C# .NET Framework
• Sufficient experience in technical roles on software development teams

• Experience with JavaScript, AngularJS
• Understanding and experience with cloud hosted infrastructure services such as Azure and Amazon Web Services for applications

sally.butler@searchability.com