AND Digital
City, Birmingham
Overview Who We Are: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or 'Clubs') so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world's digital skills gap. The Lead Product Developer plays a pivotal role in the build and delivery of remarkable products, they will champion software quality and technical vision for AND and our clients, work on large-scale projects and help the team grow in their roles. Responsibilities and requirements What you'll bring to the table: Proven development experience of working as a Lead / Senior Engineer in a commercial development team with an expert understanding of some or all of: JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular, Vue.js, Node, HTML/CSS, .NET, Java, some cloud experience, some database experience (NoSQL and/or SQL). Commercial experience working with agile methodologies. The ability to take clients' wider business concerns into account when making technical decisions and dealing with the challenges from stakeholders that come with this. Experience of implementing architecture, DevOps, performance or security and an understanding and ownership of best practice as a Lead Engineer (e.g. TDD, SOLID, XP). Comfortable mentoring junior engineers and supporting Squad Leads, to provide technical guidance as the most senior engineer on a project and ensuring the development team is achieving project goals and maintaining quality standards. Working knowledge of CI/CD practices and deployments. Working knowledge of AI tooling and techniques. Experience of writing effective documentation and knowledge sharing. Why join AND Digital? We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving. By joining AND, we'll provide: Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people's lives. A "Blended Working" model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery. A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self. An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don't have to study in your own free time. Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members. A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself. Benefits 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays Share scheme A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such as gym membership, cycle to work scheme, health, dental and optical cash plan PLUS many more For a full list of benefits - Equal Opportunities Statement At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.
Overview Who We Are: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or 'Clubs') so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world's digital skills gap. The Lead Product Developer plays a pivotal role in the build and delivery of remarkable products, they will champion software quality and technical vision for AND and our clients, work on large-scale projects and help the team grow in their roles. Responsibilities and requirements What you'll bring to the table: Proven development experience of working as a Lead / Senior Engineer in a commercial development team with an expert understanding of some or all of: JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular, Vue.js, Node, HTML/CSS, .NET, Java, some cloud experience, some database experience (NoSQL and/or SQL). Commercial experience working with agile methodologies. The ability to take clients' wider business concerns into account when making technical decisions and dealing with the challenges from stakeholders that come with this. Experience of implementing architecture, DevOps, performance or security and an understanding and ownership of best practice as a Lead Engineer (e.g. TDD, SOLID, XP). Comfortable mentoring junior engineers and supporting Squad Leads, to provide technical guidance as the most senior engineer on a project and ensuring the development team is achieving project goals and maintaining quality standards. Working knowledge of CI/CD practices and deployments. Working knowledge of AI tooling and techniques. Experience of writing effective documentation and knowledge sharing. Why join AND Digital? We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving. By joining AND, we'll provide: Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people's lives. A "Blended Working" model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery. A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self. An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don't have to study in your own free time. Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members. A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself. Benefits 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays Share scheme A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such as gym membership, cycle to work scheme, health, dental and optical cash plan PLUS many more For a full list of benefits - Equal Opportunities Statement At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.
Visa Inc.
Currency cloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. OurSenior SoftwareEngineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24x7. But we're not stopping there, and our engineers are at the forefront of taking us forward to meet the demands of even greater scale. Our Realtime Data Platform Team is a newly formed group focused on enabling and supporting real-time data capabilities across the organization. This team provides foundational services such as Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Apache Flink, and other streaming technologies, as well as promoting Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) principles that power real-time applications and data flows. As a Tech Lead, you'll own the technical vision for the Realtime Data Platform Team. You will define and drive the architecture for shared services that enable real-time data capabilities across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll lead technical strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with organizational standards. Beyond delivery, you'll influence how other teams adopt event-driven principles and modern streaming practices, acting as a trusted technical authority across domains. Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture. We are also utilizing Kafka for our streaming and PACT for Contract testing. What you'll get to do Own the technical vision and roadmap for real-time data services, ensuring they are robust, performant, and easy to consume by other teams. Lead design and implementation of streaming solutions using Kafka, Flink, and related technologies. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their development. Drive best practices for observability, reliability, and scalability in distributed systems. Mentor and support engineers within the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Act as an evangelist for event-driven architectures - implement them, communicate their benefits, and champion adoption across the organization You'll get Clear ownership of technical vision and architectural standards for a critical domain. Opportunity to influence and shape a new team from the ground up. A modern tech stack and autonomy to innovate. Strong organizational support and visibility for your work. Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Java, versions 11+, and ideallySpringbootframework Highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications on AWS are key to our next phase of growth, are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architecture Cloud-related tools, services, and distributed system observability to support these applications, such as Docker, Kubernetes,ElasticSearch, log management systems, and Datadog APM, to name but a few API specifications, conforming to the OpenAPI (Swagger) standard, provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product, and internally between our microservices SQL, and large SQL databases, provide the persistence layer for our applications. You'll be working with (and know the limitations of using) such large datastores Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team, but you will be a consumer of their work, familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficial Testing approaches, including TDD, BDD and Contract Testing, all form an important part of our approach to quality assurance, ensuring that the code that we write forms products that are fit for use. We currently use a variety of frameworks including JUnit,RSpecand Cucumber Agile development, with teams broadly aligned with the Spotify - Squads and Tribes - model, helps us deliver incremental improvements to our products in an iterative manner. Advocating this model, and joining us on a journey of continuous improvement, is a key attribute of members of our teams Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines allow us to automate-all-the-things, providing repeatable builds and consistent deployments GitHub, and the GitHub PR review process, forms a core part of our developer workflow, and peer reviews help share knowledge and improve quality Teamwork, and cross-team collaboration, is fundamental to the delivery of our applications. Whilst each application has an independent path to production, there will always be some activities and initiatives that span multiple teams and require cross-team collaboration. Within your team you'll need to collaborate with a number of stakeholders, including Product Owners and QA, as part of your product development This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Preferred Qualifications: 9 or more years of relevant work experience 5+ years experience in Java or Python Backend Development Passion for event-driven architectures and ability to advocate for them across teams. Proven experience leading technical teams or initiatives, including setting architectural direction. Skills with functional Java (versions 8+) and Spring (ideally Spring boot) Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams Expert knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability. TDD, BDD and Contract testing. Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way. Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions. A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects. A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done. Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done. Exceptional structure and attention to detail. Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work. Great written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Currency cloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. OurSenior SoftwareEngineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24x7. But we're not stopping there, and our engineers are at the forefront of taking us forward to meet the demands of even greater scale. Our Realtime Data Platform Team is a newly formed group focused on enabling and supporting real-time data capabilities across the organization. This team provides foundational services such as Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Apache Flink, and other streaming technologies, as well as promoting Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) principles that power real-time applications and data flows. As a Tech Lead, you'll own the technical vision for the Realtime Data Platform Team. You will define and drive the architecture for shared services that enable real-time data capabilities across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll lead technical strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with organizational standards. Beyond delivery, you'll influence how other teams adopt event-driven principles and modern streaming practices, acting as a trusted technical authority across domains. Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture. We are also utilizing Kafka for our streaming and PACT for Contract testing. What you'll get to do Own the technical vision and roadmap for real-time data services, ensuring they are robust, performant, and easy to consume by other teams. Lead design and implementation of streaming solutions using Kafka, Flink, and related technologies. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their development. Drive best practices for observability, reliability, and scalability in distributed systems. Mentor and support engineers within the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Act as an evangelist for event-driven architectures - implement them, communicate their benefits, and champion adoption across the organization You'll get Clear ownership of technical vision and architectural standards for a critical domain. Opportunity to influence and shape a new team from the ground up. A modern tech stack and autonomy to innovate. Strong organizational support and visibility for your work. Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Java, versions 11+, and ideallySpringbootframework Highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications on AWS are key to our next phase of growth, are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architecture Cloud-related tools, services, and distributed system observability to support these applications, such as Docker, Kubernetes,ElasticSearch, log management systems, and Datadog APM, to name but a few API specifications, conforming to the OpenAPI (Swagger) standard, provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product, and internally between our microservices SQL, and large SQL databases, provide the persistence layer for our applications. You'll be working with (and know the limitations of using) such large datastores Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team, but you will be a consumer of their work, familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficial Testing approaches, including TDD, BDD and Contract Testing, all form an important part of our approach to quality assurance, ensuring that the code that we write forms products that are fit for use. We currently use a variety of frameworks including JUnit,RSpecand Cucumber Agile development, with teams broadly aligned with the Spotify - Squads and Tribes - model, helps us deliver incremental improvements to our products in an iterative manner. Advocating this model, and joining us on a journey of continuous improvement, is a key attribute of members of our teams Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines allow us to automate-all-the-things, providing repeatable builds and consistent deployments GitHub, and the GitHub PR review process, forms a core part of our developer workflow, and peer reviews help share knowledge and improve quality Teamwork, and cross-team collaboration, is fundamental to the delivery of our applications. Whilst each application has an independent path to production, there will always be some activities and initiatives that span multiple teams and require cross-team collaboration. Within your team you'll need to collaborate with a number of stakeholders, including Product Owners and QA, as part of your product development This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Preferred Qualifications: 9 or more years of relevant work experience 5+ years experience in Java or Python Backend Development Passion for event-driven architectures and ability to advocate for them across teams. Proven experience leading technical teams or initiatives, including setting architectural direction. Skills with functional Java (versions 8+) and Spring (ideally Spring boot) Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams Expert knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability. TDD, BDD and Contract testing. Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way. Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions. A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects. A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done. Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done. Exceptional structure and attention to detail. Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work. Great written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.