Staff Software Engineer - Java

Management Level

Description

The Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader, passionate about technology, innovation, and collaboration. They continuously design, build, and deliver improvements, creating industry-leading solutions that advance products. They explore new technologies to drive continuous improvement and contribute to departmental strategies, practices, and processes.

Core Responsibilities

• Autonomy : Works under general direction with clear accountability. Exercises responsibility and discretion in complex issues, escalating when needed. Plans and monitors work to meet objectives on time and to quality standards.

• Influence : Shapes outcomes at account level, influencing customers, suppliers, and partners. Contributes to cross-functional teams, facilitates collaboration, and supports shared objectives.

• Complexity : Handles diverse technical/professional activities, investigates and resolves complex issues, and applies creative, innovative approaches.

• Business Skills : Communicates fluently with technical and non-technical audiences. Selects and adapts standards, tools, and processes. Applies risk awareness, maximises applications, and supports adoption of new technologies. Shares expertise, mentors others, and drives professional development. Understands security, privacy, and ethics.

• Knowledge : Maintains deep domain and industry knowledge, applies it effectively in new contexts, and rapidly absorbs and evaluates new information.

Professional Responsibilities

• Adhere to Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM.

• Develop and maintain processes, standards, and best practices for consistent delivery.

• Promote engineering excellence via tools, reviews, and quality gates.

• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to strengthen product competitiveness.

• Foster lifecycle optimisation through knowledge management and continuous learning.

• Mentor engineers, support technical challenges, and build a high-performance culture.

• Support talent pipeline development through hiring, succession planning, and reviews.

• Advocate for reducing technical debt and support prioritisation.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps, product vitality, and architecture documentation.

Technical Responsibilities

• Own technical responsibility across all software development stages.

• Plan and drive construction activities using appropriate methods and tools.

• Monitor adherence to standards, including security.

• Contribute to organisational policies and guidelines for software development.

Education & Experience

• Technical degree (engineering, computer science).

• Preferred: post-graduation in advanced computer science or MBA in Systems.

• Experience in SaaS product engineering and leading product portfolios.

Professional Skills & Qualities

• Agile (Scrum), efficiency improvement, configuration management, release readiness.

• Documentation, process/data/system engineering, lifecycle management, problem solving.

• Emotional intelligence, collaboration, active listening, continuous learning, creativity.

• Resilience, ownership, critical thinking, time management, decision-making.

Technical Skills (Advanced)

• JAVA Full stack development, REST/WCF services, database design, responsive web design.

• Dependency injection, ORM frameworks, unit/integration testing.

• Modern practices: accessibility, microservices, API gateway, messaging.

• Tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, TFSVC.

• Cloud: Azure, AWS.

• Identity: ADFS, OAuth, Okta, Identity Server.

• Security: principles, SAST/DAST.

• Architecture: containers, CI/CD, deployments.

• Applications: CMS, message queuing, ORM tools, Umbraco, SharePoint.

• Languages/Frameworks: JSON, XML, LINQ, PowerShell, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, T-SQL,).

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.