Software Engineer

Hackajob

Hackajob

Software Engineering

London, UK

Posted on Apr 17, 2026
hackajob is collaborating with American Express to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a Software Engineer, you’ll help to build world class software through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation). You’ll contribute to the design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluation, modification, deployment, and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Building software to expected quality and standards using distributed enterprise frameworks.
  • Participating in code, test & other quality reviews
  • Debugging basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
  • Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
  • Automating deployments in test and production environments
  • Scaling applications based on demand projections

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proven years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience with the following:
  • Hands on Java application design, software development and automated testing (Java 11 and higher)
  • Intermediate knowledge of basic infrastructure technologies and components
  • Familiarity with application containers based on spring, Vert.X or equivalent
  • Familiarity with Cloud services including DevOps concepts and CI/CD tools
  • Experience with Event-driven/Micro-services architecture for high-availability/distributed systems
  • Experience using Spring Framework, Junit, GitHub, Microservices, Splunk and API’s
  • Experience with Test driven development and unit testing frameworks
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git) and build toolings Maven or Gradle