Nationwide Building Society
Technical Lead - Full stack
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Role Overview
You’ll be joining our Economic Crime Engineering team. We use Feedzai for real-time Fraud detection and we are expanding Netreveal’s capabilities for AML screening, and we’re looking for full-stack senior engineers passionate about developing new capabilities as well as maintaining the platforms for our fraud detection and financial crime systems.
Our vision is to create dedicated squads that truly own our platforms end-to-end from building integrations and data pipelines through to keeping the lights in production. We want to create techno-functional teams with T-shaped engineers who understand both the technology and the business domain, can move fast, and become trusted partners to our Fraud and Fincrime business.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the capabilities of your platform area from design through production – developing RESTful APIs and microservices, building integrations and data pipelines, deploying changes to production, and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
- A mix of development work (developing RESTful APIs and microservices, complex SQL queries depending on what the problem needs), execute production deployments, proactive monitoring and incident response.
- Work directly with our Fraud or Financial Crime business teams to understand what we need to build next.
- Coordinate with our platform vendors to improve operational processes and improving observability.
About You
- Hands-on experience in a financial services or similarly regulated environment - experience on mission-critical systems where uptime is important.
- Hands-on experience with fraud detection or financial crime platforms like Feedzai, Netreveal, or similar.
- Technical background covering designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs and Microservices using Java and Spring Boot. You should be able to lead technical discussions and make architectural decisions.
- Hands-on experience in building scalable and resilient backend systems following microservices architecture principles.
- Designed, developed, and maintained data pipelines, ETL workflows, and integration solutions.
- Developed and optimized complex SQL queries, stored procedures, data models, and database performance.
- Experience implementing logging, monitoring, and observability of services including monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing application performance and reliability.
- Experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining applications on cloud platforms.
- Experience implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., JWT, OAuth).
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline implementation and deployment automation.
- Implemented data modelling, data lineage, and data governance practices to ensure trusted and reusable data assets.
- Domain experience in either Fraud detection and/or AML compliance domains is desirable – good understanding of transaction monitoring scenarios, customer screening, risk scoring.
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Benefits
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
- Private medical insurance
- A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
- Access to an annual performance-related bonus
- Training and development to help you progress your career
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
- Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
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If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Technical Lead.
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