The Company
MuchBetter is revolutionising the payments space.
Offering a variety of products including a digital wallet app, wearables, cash vouchers and more, MuchBetter serves over one million users across 100+ markets in over 16 languages.
The MuchBetter Wallet allows customers to spend, send, and store money securely, all from their mobile phones with the ability to pair MuchBetter Wearables, such as key fobs, watches, and more to make contactless payments.
Our newest product, MuchBetter Gateway has been designed to power e-commerce performance through localised payment processors
The Role:
We’re on the hunt for a talented Java Developer to join our dynamic team. If you’re passionate about crafting high-performance applications and thrive on solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment, this role is for you. Be part of a company that values creativity, growth, and excellence while offering incredible perks like private health insurance, hybrid working, professional development support, and more. Take your career to the next level with MuchBetter!
Key Tasks:
- To deliver software components to enable MuchBetter products.
- To develop high-volume, high-performance, high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies.
- To ensure consistent use of shared platform components and technologies.
- To develop reusable libraries and APIs.
- To follow best practice for application development.
- To write unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality.
- To be responsible for work quality, ensuring it meets the technical standards of MuchBetter.
- To work to the MuchBetter policy on Health and Safety.
Experience Required:
Knowledge
- Preferred – Degree qualified in related subject.
Experience
- A background in software engineering, software design or database design.
- Demonstrable experience developing software.
- Experience implementing public facing REST APIs.
- Experience of the following is highly desirable: JAVA, REST, HTTP, MySQL, iOS & Android, HTML, CSS.
- Knowledge of database optimization.
Skills
- Demonstrable Java development experience.
- Demonstrable experience of using Java & build frameworks.
- Knowledge of Java best practice.
- Knowledge of test-driven development alongside use of automated test frameworks, mocking/stubbing and Junit.
- Proven experience of project working and commercial development processes – particularly Agile methodologies.
- Experience of working in an environment where products have to be delivered to specific timescales.
- An ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions.
- Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own.
- Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla), Wikis (e.g. Confluence) and code review tools (e.g. gerrit).
- Demonstrable experience with CI/CD process’ (e.g. Jenkins).
Attributes and Behaviours:
- Analytical thinking – able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically.
- Influencing and persuading – able to present sound and well reasoned arguments to convince others. Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
- Communication – able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
- Managing relationships and team working – able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively.
- Keeps pace with change – acquires knowledge/skills as the business develops.
Remuneration
- A competitive salary
- BUPA Health and Dental Insurance for you and your Spouse/Dependents up to the age of 18
- Aviva Pension
- Hybrid working
- Free parking
- Professional qualification Support
- 25 Days annual leave + all bank holidays
- 1 extra day annual leave for your birthday
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- New, modern office
- Social and Celebration Events
