Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Application Deadline: 29 June 2026

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London, UK

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, test and deploy high-quality, secure software solutions while working collaboratively within an agile environment. You will also play a key role in providing technical support, identifying and resolving bugs, and contributing to the out-of-hours support rota. In addition, you will mentor Software Engineers across the team, offering guidance, support and technical expertise to help drive high standards and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain reusable and reliable code individually and as part of the wider team.
Ensure that designs and development are in line with quality standards.
Implement and maintain automated testing, including unit, integration and end to end tests, to ensure high quality standards are maintained.
Identify and fix bugs in software.
Mentor the Software Engineers to develop skills.
Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines under supervision of the Principal Software Engineer.
Update and maintain the Azure infrastructure under the supervision of the Principal Software Engineer.
Keep up to date with the latest technology and industry best practice, including security coding practices.
Be responsible for embedding security throughout the SDLC.
Undertake peer reviews and work collaboratively across the team, including providing advice and guidance to the Software Engineers, to ensure high quality standards.
Provide technical support for Production systems, including out of hours support.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

Proven experience of working across a business, to represent the team and identify areas of improvement.
Good technical understanding, including knowledge of the IT development lifecycle.
Excellent technical problem-solving skills, able to quickly identify issues and suggest resolutions.
Ability to manage priorities, delegating / escalating where appropriate.
Excellent interpersonal skills using tact and diplomacy in engaging colleagues.
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Demonstrable experience in working with other technical team members.

Desirable

Strong knowledge of Cifas.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to help facilitate workshops

Benefits

In return for helping us take the fight to fraud, all our employees receive an impressive benefit package, which includes:

Remote working with approximately 2 days a month in the London office, although there will be a requirement to attend conventions, forums and events
Generous annual leave, plus bank holidays
Private healthcare
Excellent pension package through salary sacrifice
Personal and professional growth
Employee wellbeing – Wellbeing breaks, wellbeing hub access including exercise programmes, meditation guides, sleep stories and yoga.

We have introduced agile ways of working, allowing teams to decide how best they work, while ensuring regular opportunities to collaborate and innovate. We create an environment to help you to unleash your potential and perform the most rewarding work of your career, whilst keeping your wellbeing at the foremost with initiatives in place to promote the wellness of our people.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and have dedicated inclusion champions across the business to celebrate and promote our uniqueness. We also have a dedicated team of volunteers looking for innovative ways to give back as part of our commitments under our Corporate Social Responsibility. And were delighted to be recognised in the 2021, 2022 & 2024 best companies to work for listings. We have also been awarded the Investors in People Gold accreditation.

If you are passionate about our purpose and would like an opportunity to make a valuable contribution to fraud prevention, we would like to hear from you.

About Cifas

Cifas is a not-for profit membership association representing the private and public sectors. Cifas is dedicated to the prevention of fraud, including internal fraud, and the identification of financial crime.

Cifas has over 500 Members spread across banking, credit cards, asset finance, retail credit, mail order, insurance, savings, telecommunications, factoring, share dealing and the public sector. Although at present Cifas Members are predominantly private sector organisations, public sector bodies may also share fraud data reciprocally through Cifas to prevent fraud.

Members share information about identified frauds in the fight to prevent further fraud. Cifas is unique and was the world’s first not-for-profit fraud prevention data sharing scheme. Since Cifas was founded in 1988, Cifas Members have prevented fraud losses to their organisations worth billions of pounds by sharing fraud data.

By joining the Cifas LinkedIn Group, you will be able to keep in contact with the UK’s fraud data sharing network and receive the notifications of the latest news, research, reports, training courses and events.

Industry

Finance & Insurance

Company Size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

London, GB

Year Founded

1988

Website

cifas.org.uk

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