careers: lead software engineer / architect
Xbridge Background
This is an excellent opportunity to join Europe's leading online intermediary for business finance and insurance. In the United Kingdom, most online business finance transactions originate on systems built and managed by Xbridge. Our commerce solutions power the online strategies of many of the UK's most prominent financial brands, including 3 of the 4 largest banks and 2 of the largest insurers. Every month our customer acquisition solutions deliver over £1 billion of new potential business to the owners of some of the most prominent brands in commercial finance.
Over one million businesses have used Xbridge-powered online marketplaces to find the most appropriate commercial lender and/or insurer. Xbridge marketplaces are integrated into over 300 leading portals and business finance websites, including MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, and Tiscali. Xbridge has previously won New Media Age 'effectiveness award' for the B2B arena and European Banking Technology's award for "Best Online and Multichannel Bank".
Position: Lead Software Engineer / Architect
The role mainly involves
- Working with internal business clients to understand their requirements and translate into value-generating technical solutions
- Designing, developing and implementing new systems or components of Xbridge's application portfolio
- Enhancing and developing existing application systems or components
- Supporting, troubleshooting and managing production applications
- Enabling bespoke and standardised data integration with clients and partners
- Managing and reviewing development team coding practices, including enforcement of approved architectures, methodologies and standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building experience building dynamic database driven Web applications using J2SE & J2EE components & frameworks.
- 3+ years experience with enterprise database servers such as Oracle 10g/MS SQL Server.
- 1+ year of experience with Web Services and SOA.
- Team leading, lead developer or other management experience is essential.
- Good Unix skills, including experience with various OS flavours, underlying daemons, protocols and tools. Linux, Solaris, Apache, etc
- Experience with XP development methodologies, as well as other approaches; strong knowledge of source control tools and release management, build and unit testing tools (Perforce, ANT, JUnit, etc.)
- Deployment / Administration experience with one of Tomcat, Weblogic or Webshpere.
- BSc or MSc (preferred) in Computer Science, Maths or similar, with a minimum 2.1 from a top tier university (or equivalent).
- Analytical mind and creative approach to problem solving.
- Object Oriented Design & Development using UML.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable
- Experience in financial services and/or a strong e-commerce experience is very useful.
- Experience of Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, OO Design Patterns is a bonus.
You should be a driven and focused individual willing to put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company.
Please email your CV to our Human Resources department at careers@xbridge.com or fax it to 020 7920 8088. Please include cover letter and expected salary and be sure to include career objectives and goals in your CV!