allica-bank - Full Stack Engineer (UK)

• Experience building and operating Spring Boot microservices in Kotlin or Java, including REST APIs, integrations, and containerised deployments on a major cloud platform (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud also relevant). • Good knowledge of React and TypeScript, with practical experience building accessible, maintainable, and performant user interfaces. • Ability to design and deliver well-structured features within an existing architecture, with an understanding of trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, and delivery pace. • Good understanding of distributed systems fundamentals appropriate to microservices, such as resilience, latency, and failure handling. • Good understanding of secure coding practices, privacy considerations, and security expectations for production systems. • Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling; familiarity with Azure DevOps Pipelines and Azure deployment services is beneficial. • Ability to improve code quality through refactoring, clearer abstractions, and maintaining sensible boundaries between modules and services. • Experience collaborating through code review, pairing, and technical discussions to help improve team outcomes. • Experience using GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex or Claude Code to improve productivity and code quality, with a clear understanding of their limitations and the need for review and validation. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, Product Design & other stakeholders. • Working at Allica Bank • At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers. • Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind: • Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities • Options for flexible working • Regular social activities • Pension contributions • Discretionary bonus scheme • Private health cover • Life assurance • Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave • Don’t tick every box? • Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you! • Flexible working • We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate. • We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.