FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup – 26th May 2021

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Welcome to the FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup, a bite-sized bulletin of the latest jobs added to our FinTech Wales member’s career pages over the last week.

If you or someone you know are looking for an opportunity to work at an industry-leading financial technology company, then check out the freshest jobs in Welsh FinTech in the latest recruitment roundup.

Wealthify – Junior/Graduate Software Engineer

Company – Wealthify

Job Title – Junior/Graduate Software Engineer

Location – Penarth

Salary – Competitive salary up to £30,000

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – You’ll be working as a software engineer in a cross-functional squad of designers, product, engineers, and testers, to deliver new products and features. Squads develop and own features end-to-end, so you’ll have opportunity to work across a wide range of technologies, across web, mobile apps, API, backend, and databases. We’re hosted in Microsoft Azure and take advantage of cloud technologies to ensure our platform is secure, fast, and scales to meet demand.

Responsibilities

All team members participate in architecture and design choices, sprint planning and code reviewing; and tech leads are on hand to coach and mentor others. We write high quality, high performance, scalable code, and release small and often, using Git and Azure DevOps. Developers all contribute to code reviews, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Apply on the Wealthify website here

Yoello – Back End Software Engineer

Company – Yoello

Job Title – Back End Software Engineer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Up to £40,000 depending on experience

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – Our environments are virtual, so you’ll need a good working knowledge of developing and deploying applications using AWS, although experience in other cloud providers will be accepted.  You’ll develop the application, infrastructure, and database schemas that make up the foundational structure of a product providing the complete platform to support our mobile applications.

Responsibilities

You’ll need to be confident in making green field design decisions, figuring out problems and choosing the right approach as our company evolves and our markets grow.  With a strong development background you’ll have the experience and ambition to help define and build sustainable, scalable and secure solutions.

Apply on the Yoello Website Here

LexisNexis – Business Development Manager

Company – LexisNexis

Job Title – Business Development Manager

Location – Home Based UK

Salary – Competitive Plus Commission

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – Proactively engage with firms to understand their specific business challenges, needs and requirements. Identifying then educating on where LexisNexis is uniquely positioned to support them. From here, sell a bespoke range of LexisNexis core Legal, Tax, News and Business Research Solution lines based on those specific business needs. Operating in and across key sectors including, Legal and Tax markets, financial, media and corporate in-house.

Responsibilities

• Formulate a strategy, on an account-by-account basis, by which new revenue opportunities are maximised and profitable business is won

• Ensuring sales and productivity targets are met – weekly, monthly, yearly

• Ensuring all debt management is covered and accounted for in a timely fashion, by working with customers closely

• Ensuring GDPR following rules and processes

• Preparing a sales strategy for the allocated territory, accurately forecasting new business month by month, and providing a three-month forecast at any given time. Including maintaining a clear and accurate sales pipeline at all times

• Providing the Head of Business Development with forecasts and reports as and when requested by them.

• Timely production of regular and ad hoc sales reports.

• Preparing a sales plan to displace competitive products within prospective client base.

• Achieving and exceeding monthly targets as defined by the Head of Business Development.

• Developing new contact either as decision-makers or influencers.

• Prioritising opportunities, ensuring maximum customer-facing time is achieved, with a minimum 6 client meetings per week

• Effectively working alongside other stakeholder departments to ensure an integrated approach to customer care and that market needs are being met.

• Demonstrate complete knowledge of the features, advantages and benefits of all LN products, and be able to demonstrate them fully.

• Keeping up to date with market changes and developments, as well as new products.

• Strong working knowledge of tools, principles, concepts and external frameworks in and affecting own area. Deals with day-to-day operational problems within own area, solving problems by making judgements.

• Gathering customer insight and bringing back to the business in formats provided

• All other duties as reasonably required.

Apply on the company website here

Acquis – Application Developer

Company – Acquis

Job Title – Application Developer

Location – Newport

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Unknown

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – Joining the IT team as an Application Developer, you will be responsible for maintaining our public-facing web applications, APIs and implementing new features. Additionally, you will provide ongoing development of other in-house applications. This will include developing, testing and deploying new features, identifying and fixing bugs, and producing supporting documentation. 

Requirements

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate proficiency of a variety of technologies such as C#, VB .Net, ASP.Net Core, ASP.Net Core Identity, Entity Framework Core, Web API, MVC, Bootstrap, HTML5 and Transact-SQL.

Apply on the company website here

Sonovate – UI Engineer

Company – Sonovate

Job Title – UI Engineer

Location – Cardiff Remote

Salary – Competitive

Remote Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – We need a UI Engineer to work in our high skill, high productivity UI/UX team, taking pride in delivering high-quality software into production, bringing your skills and experience to bear. From problem solving to new concept ideas, you have the genuine opportunity to release your full potential.

Responsibilities

Sonovate Technology is deep into a greenfield design and build of a unique next generation funding platform. The UI Engineering team is supporting this by building web apps using server-side rendering and static optimisations to deliver cashflow as a service to millions of SMEs in the UK and oversees. Sonovate products are built on top of a micro-service architecture that exposes enterprise standard APIs, while taking advantage of everything Microsoft Azure has to offer.

Trust Payments – Software Development Manager

Company – Trust Payments

Job Title – Software Development Manager

Location – Bangor

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description –   As a software development manager, you will be at the heart of driving their software development and innovation programmes. You will be leading a team of high performing developers as well as producing world class code yourself. The team and business is growing rapidly and this is a great opportunity to join a well-established business who value their staff

Responsibilities

•   Strong experience of managing a team of software developers
•   Strong background in Python development
•   Good knowledge of the latest technology trends & developments
•   Good knowledge of Agile (ideally implementing or driving its adoption)
•   Strong verbal and written communication and influencing skills
•   Full software development lifecycle ownership
•   Knowledge of Agile/Scrum processes
•   Highly organised with strong attention to detail
•   Manage the team of 10-15 people
•   Drive architecture
•   Review code
•   Growth and security of the business in line with the operating plan
•   Comply with all legislation and codes of practice appropriate to the role
•   Comply with the Health and Safety at work Act (1974) and relevant directives in all activities
•   Compliance on all relevant aspects of GDPR as appropriate to the role

Backbase – Principal Mobile Engineer (Remote anywhere in the UK)

Company – Backbase

Job Title – Principal Mobile Engineer

Location – Cardiff / (Remote anywhere in the UK)

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – As a Principal iOS Engineer, you will use Objective-C and Swift to build secure, enterprise-grade capabilities used by developers and end-users. Mission of the Tribe: We provide a unified way of working, best practices, know-how, tools and building blocks as development platform to maximize the value of Backbase products and to minimize the development efforts ensuring high quality and security in all steps of the way to earn the trust and loyalty of our users that use our banking software.

Requirements

  • You have 8+ years of relevant working experience working on complex iOS-based products;
  • You are a result-oriented engineer who is familiar with Agile software development practices and methodologies;
  • You are accustomed to translating high-level business requirements into technical designs and coach your peers to do the same;
  • You care about code quality and you thrive in a complex domain;
  • Security and other non-functionals don’t scare you and you have what it takes to uphold our high standards;
  • You have technical experience with architecture patterns like MVVM, VIPER or MVP;
  • Strong belief that writing clean, maintainable and scalable code is the best way to work;
  • Having an understanding of the SDLC and experience with Continuous Delivery tools would be a big plus;
  • You work and play well with others as you are part of an Agile team;

Confused.com – Senior Software Developer

Company – Confused.com

Job Title – Senior Software Developer

Location – Cardiff

Salary – Competitive

Flexible Working – Yes

Contract – Full Time, Permanent

Perks – Yes

Description – An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Technology Team at Confused.com! If you are a Software Developer who enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic and rewarding environment, you might be just what we are looking for.

We need a team player who is also self-sufficient and has the ability to deliver top-quality code. You will be continuously demonstrating and developing your knowledge and skills on the job.

Responsibilities

Being highly skilled, diligent and able to multi-task are essential skills for this fast-paced role.

The ability to mentor junior team members in their technical skills and assist with their career development.

We’re looking for someone who will collaborate within wider team to pursue DevOps style Operational Excellence standards and process improvements designed to meet or exceed lead times.

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These are just a selection of the new opportunities available in Welsh FinTech, so if you’re ready to take the next step professionally or know someone looking to kickstart a career in financial technology, don’t hesitate to apply for an exciting position at Wales’ best FinTechs.
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