Applications Developer

This role is responsible for designing, developing, maintaining and supporting business-critical applications that underpin Bottomline payment and financial technology solutions. Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, the Applications Developer will contribute to the delivery of high-quality software enhancements, defect resolution and customer-focused improvements across existing and new platforms. The role is ideally suited to an individual with 24 years of hands-on experience in Visual Basic and Java development, preferably gained within the payments, banking or wider financial services industry. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical capability, a structured approach to problem solving, and a commitment to delivering reliable, scalable and secure solutions in line with established engineering standards.

• Designing, developing and maintaining applications and software components using Visual Basic and Java.

• Supporting the enhancement and maintenance of existing payment and financial software solutions.

• Contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation and support.

• Troubleshooting application issues, identifying root causes and delivering timely defect resolution.

• Collaborating with Product, QA, Support and other Engineering teams to deliver software changes aligned to business and customer requirements.

• Writing clean, maintainable and well-documented code in accordance with development standards and best practices.

• Preparing and executing unit tests, supporting integration testing and assisting with user acceptance testing where required.

• Participating in code reviews and contributing to continuous improvement in code quality, performance and security.

• Assisting with production support activities, including investigation of incidents and implementation of fixes.

• Working with databases, interfaces and file-based integrations commonly used in payment and finance systems.

• Supporting technical documentation including design notes, release information and support handover material.

• Actively building knowledge of Bottomline solutions, payment workflows and financial industry requirements to support ongoing development and innovation.

• Providing a positive service that exceeds customer expectations

• Supporting the department to achieve exceptional levels of customer service by ensuring that processes and controls are maintained.

• Ensuring the effective use of resources

• Establishing common processes and sharing best practice

• Ensuring that project issues are escalated in a timely manner

• Ensuring good levels of communication with other departments

• Establishing, monitoring and improving departmental processes. Strive to standardize and introduce economies of scale

• Sharing lessons learnt within the team and department

• Supporting the roll out of new solutions.

• Participating in peer review of tasks, challenging and reviewing best practices

• Taking ownership of a particular process, product or domain. Becoming a Subject Matter Expert

• Actively participate in personal and team development initiatives, fostering growth and adaptability.

• Experience in banking application implementations and knowledge of ACH/WIRE/ Foreign drafts/SWIFT and other payment methods.

• Proficiency in SQL and XML for data mapping and transformations.

• MQ and Linux knowledge.

• Demonstrate a capacity for critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.

• Great verbal and written communication skills.

• Good organisational skills.

• A responsible attitude.

• Energetic and positive.

• Good 'people skills' for building relationships with colleagues and customers at all levels.

• Calmness under pressure.