Senior development engineer Job in Cambridge, England

Senior development engineer Job Description

Purpose of the role:

• The engineer will work as part of a team with responsibility for design, development and maintenance of software based solutions that make up WorldPay's 24/7 online payment processing gateway.
• The senior engineer will act as a mentor to others within their development team.
• WorldPay is currently looking to adopt lean/agile development methods; practical experience of these would be an asset.

• Produce system requirements from business requirements
• Produce designs and estimates from system requirements
• Produce well structured, maintainable, reliable and fit for purpose code at an accepted level of quality
• Develop unit test code to highest possible coverage levels
• Assist with content and accuracy of user facing documentation as appropriate
• Provide QA for designs/specifications written by others
• Provide QA for test specifications
• Peer review other engineers' work ensuring:

1. Functionality has been met
2. Code is well structured, maintainable and of high quality
3. Code is documented appropriately

• Define and develop and maintain project document library and intranet.
• Mentoring and training of other developers
• Help set up environments with less experienced staff
• Troubleshooting and investigation of production system problems
• Proactively identify improvements and enhancements to working practices

Senior development engineer Job Requirements

• A flexible approach is necessary for the role as the business requirements and their relative priorities are subject to review and change.
• Must show initiative and ability to take a technical lead role on projects within their teams.
• Excellent communication skills are essential, to gather and impart information effectively within the department and to the wider business
• "Can do" attitude and a sense of responsibility for the wider implications of software engineering
• Flexible approach to working hours to ensure project deadlines are achieved
• Proactive approach to all areas of work

• Proven experience in software development in a number of languages and environments.
• Degree level education (in related subject of computing, maths, science, engineering) or equivalent.
• Experience of complex internet applications and/or the finance industry.
• Knowledge/practical application of agile methods
• Demonstrable track record in delivering work to schedule and specification.
• Experience of object oriented design.
• Experience of database design in large database systems.
• Good knowledge of web application security

• Java - commercial experience
• SQL (Preferably Sybase) -commercial experience including optimisation of queries
• Apache/Tomcat
• Source code control (SVN)
• Unix (Preferably Sun Solaris and/or Linux) - commercial experience

• Perl
• CGI scripts.

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