Tech Engineer

YBS is looking for a Technical Lead responsible for delivering Java microservices and APIs for Digital web/app applications and payments processes. This role will be based in our Leeds City Centre office with working from home capability.

What You'll Do

You will be accountable for all aspects of technical quality within a squad. Embedded in the squad it is a technical hands-on role that covers:

• Technical Design: leading the squad in creating (and documenting) designs which deliver the features to the agreed service levels. You will be creating and adapting the existing products to changing demands, ensuring they remains fit for purpose in a high transaction environment.

• Implementation leadership: leading the engineers in implementing the design, balancing work to people, addressing hotspots and coaching as required to deliver.

• Release & Deployment: Responsible for deployments and ensuring quality and traceability.

• Assurance: Accountable for providing assurance that products are built right, to service levels and follow applicable NFR's and standards, for example security standards

• Application ownership: Accountable for technical debt, service levels and security vulnerabilities for the applications owned within their squad.

• Work closely with architects, devOps engineers, product owners, scrum masters and the engineering chapter lead.

• Join the out of hours call rota for supporting the Digital products.

How You'll Do It

• Be a great communicator finding ways for non-technical people to understand technical concepts.

• Be a strong influencer and negotiator to bring people on-board to new ways of thinking and working against a strongly regulated financial environment.

• Have excellent knowledge of Java and Microservices.

• Desirable skills include:

  • Restful Design, working with API Gateway products (Google Apigee or equivalent)

  • Containers and Container Orchestration - Kubernetes, OpenShift

  • Logging, Monitoring & Alerting - Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace or equivalent

  • CI/CD Pipelines - Gitlab, Artifactory.

  • Security (OWASP, Certificates, JWT, Encryption techniques)

  • Have experience of working within IT support environments

About us

At YBS we don't have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you'll be respected for who you are, you'll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you'll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it's finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We're happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we're committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we'll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity. We're passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you'll go the extra mile to help our members, you'll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You'll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that's why we'll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you'll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you'll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Ready to apply?

If you're excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.

Want more information?

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Holly Gallagher at

This advert will close on the 29th August.