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Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.\nEstablished SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.\nDepartment Description\nOur teams move quickly, focus on outcomes, and take ownership from concept through to delivery. We solve complex problems, modernise processes, and enable the business to scale with confidence. What makes us different is the level of influence and autonomy engineers have. We work without the weight of legacy systems, which means we can focus on building for the future. Everyone contributes ideas and helps shape how we operate, and roles evolve as the organisation grows. This is a place for people who want to have a tangible impact and do their best work in a modern, collaborative environment.\nRole Description\nThe Full Stack Engineer contributes to the design and delivery of products within a squad, helping to build secure, reliable, and accessible software while maintaining high engineering standards and a good developer experience.\nYou will use your skills in Spring Boot microservices (Kotlin/Java) and modern web technologies (React/TypeScript) to deliver features across the stack. Our backend services run as containerised applications on Azure Container Apps, and our web applications are deployed via Azure Static Web Apps; you will help ensure the services and applications you work on are production-ready and make effective use of these platforms.\nYou will contribute to good engineering practices in observability, CI/CD, security, performance, and accessibility, helping systems meet the standards expected of a UK bank. You will contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and follow organisation-wide patterns and standards.\nYou are hands-on and collaborative: you help design features, write code, review changes, and work closely with engineers, Product, and Design to deliver valuable outcomes. You use approved GenAItools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex or Claude Code responsibly to improve productivity and quality, while validating outputs carefully.\nSuccess in this role is measured by the consistent delivery of high-quality features, contribution to reliable and maintainable systems, improvements to the codebase and operational health of services, and your growth in technical capability and ownership.\nPrincipal Accountabilities:\nContribute to the end-to-end design and delivery of features across the full stack using:\nBackend: Kotlin/Java Spring Boot microservices, containerised and deployed on Azure Container\n\nApps, exposing REST/OpenAPI APIs and integrating with other services and data stores.\n\nFrontend: React/TypeScript, shared design system components, and agreed architectural patterns, deployed on Azure Static Web Apps.\n\nContribute to technical design discussions and help produce clear ADRs for significant decisions, documenting context, options, trade-offs, and outcomes in line with organisation standards.\n\nSupport the squad’s services in production by contributing to SLOs and operational metrics, monitoring systems, responding to incidents, and helping to reduce recurring issues and improve reliability.\n\nApply secure and compliant engineering practices:\nFollow secure coding standards and contribute to threat modelling activities.\n\nEnsure logging, audit trails, and data handling meet regulatory and privacy requirements.\n\nEnsure accessibility standards are met in user-facing features.\n\nHelp strengthen observability and operational excellence within the squad by contributing to metrics, tracing, logs, dashboards, runbooks, and alerts, and using them effectively in day-to-day engineering work.\n\nContribute to improvements in developer experience, including CI/CD pipelines, test strategy, local development workflows, and release practices, in line with wider engineering standards and cloud deployment patterns.\n\nUse AI-assisted engineering responsibly:\nUse approved tools like GitHub Copilot, Codex or Claude Code to improve speed, quality, and consistency.\n\nValidate and refine AI-generated code to ensure correctness, maintainability, and compliance.\n\nShare feedback and effective practices with the team.\n\nCollaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to understand requirements, shape practical solutions, and deliver work aligned to product goals and timelines.\n\nMaintain high standards of code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability across the squad’s codebase, while helping to reduce technical debt.\n\nSupport other engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing, contributing positively to the growth and effectiveness of the squad.\n\nPersonal Attributes & Experience\nExperience 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).\n\nGood knowledge of React and TypeScript, with practical experience building accessible, maintainable, and performant user interfaces.\n\nAbility to design and deliver well-structured features within an existing architecture, with an understanding of trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, and delivery pace.\n\nGood understanding of distributed systems fundamentals appropriate to microservices, such as resilience, latency, and failure handling.\n\nGood understanding of secure coding practices, privacy considerations, and security expectations for production systems.\n\nExperience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling; familiarity with Azure DevOps Pipelines and Azure deployment services is beneficial.\n\nAbility to improve code quality through refactoring, clearer abstractions, and maintaining sensible boundaries between modules and services.\n\nExperience collaborating through code review, pairing, and technical discussions to help improve team outcomes.\n\nExperience 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.\n\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, Product Design & other stakeholders.\n\nWorking at Allica Bank\nAt 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.\nOur employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:\nFull onboarding support and continued development opportunities\n\nOptions for flexible working\n\nRegular social activities\n\nPension contributions\n\nDiscretionary bonus scheme\n\nPrivate health cover\n\nLife assurance\n\nFamily friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave\n\nDon’t tick every box?\nDon’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. 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