Principal Backend Developer (Java)

Principal Backend Engineer – Java Location: Glasgow (Hybrid) | Practice Area : Technology & Engineering | Type: Permanent Architect the next generation of financial platforms. Lead with Java expertise. Deliver impact at scale. The Role We’re looking for a Principal Backend Engineer (Java) to join our Technology & Engineering team. This leadership-level role calls for deep technical acumen, a security-first mindset, and strong coaching capabilities. You’ll architect cloud-native backend systems, shape our engineering standards, and mentor teams to deliver high-performance platforms for global financial clients. This role will sit in our Scotland office, with a need to potentially work in either Glasgow or Edinburgh depending on client expectations. What You’ll Do Lead the design and development of secure, scalable backend systems using Java 11+ and Spring Boot Architect distributed microservices and event-driven systems deployed to public cloud (preferably AWS) Guide technical decision-making across teams and align solutions to enterprise strategies Champion engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and a test-first culture Coach developers, shape delivery processes, and influence broader engineering practices across Capco What We’re Looking For Expertise in Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, and AWS-based enterprise cloud solutions Proven track record architecting secure, scalable services using microservices and CQRS patterns Strong experience in CI/CD pipelines, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka, CloudFormation, and streaming frameworks Advanced understanding of system security protocols (e.g., OAuth, IAM, TLS, encryption) Leadership capability to manage and mentor teams while driving technology strategy Bonus Points For Contributions to thought leadership, mentoring, or RFPs within consultancy or tech environments Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, Cucumber, and Behaviour Driven Design AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) History of deliver

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role You will focus on friction points around primarily backend issues for all teams in Engineering (90 Engineers). How should we do inter-service testing? Some teams are using monorepo, others aren’t. How can we bring overall stability up? Generally steering BE in the right direction. In the near future, standardising things across all of Engineering and bringing R&D teams (another 40 Engineers and Researchers) closer. You will have ownership of projects that span quarters, requiring you to have the ability to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively. You will evaluate your own work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary. You will consider the long-term direction of Engineering, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 12-18 months' time. You will work end-to-end, from our client application written in React to our monolithic backend written in Python, and lead projects that span across multiple teams. What we're looking

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to join the ML Platform team at Synthesia. Our team builds and operates the systems that allow researchers and product teams to train, serve, and deploy generative models reliably and efficiently . This includes research infrastructure, production serving systems, internal tooling, and the platform interfaces that connect them. A growing part of our mission is making these systems more automation-friendly and agent-oriented , so that workflows can increasingly be operated through reliable tooling rather than manual effort. We’re looking for a strong generalist with a systems mindset: someone who is comfortable working across infrastructure, backend systems, and tooling, and who has seen ML systems in practice. this is not a pure ML Engineer role. We’re especially interested in people who think deeply about reliability, scalability, performance, and resource efficiency in complex production environments. This is a hands-on IC role with significant ownership. You’ll help shape how our ML platform evolves as we scale the number of models, workloads, tools and teams relying on it. What you’ll do Design and improve the platform systems that support model training, evaluation, an

Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system. Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI. Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. What's the opportunity? Principal Engineers at Fin have the opportunity to lead the definition and execution of key strategic initiatives. You will work autonomously and be accountable for strategic execution in part of the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Group Engineering Managers on technical strategy and leadership. Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering What will I be doing? As an experienced engineer you will: Have a mastery of domain knowledge and work as a leader within the R&D org to drive key strategic projects. Provide assessments of project progress, risks and challenges to e

Curious Minds. Bold Ideas. Extraordinary Impact . We're transforming financial services through bold innovation and relentless execution. You bring the ideas and drive. We'll build what's next — together. Essential Functions: • Capability to apply abstract reuse patterns to integrations and code both on platform and elsewhere using one or more nCino supported languages • Ability to manipulate how Salesforce leverages, utilizes, and generates nCino supported languages • Provide technical assistance and leadership for medium to large financial institutions and Implementation Service Consultants when building integrations into the nCino/Force.com platform using the nCino Integration Framework. • Begin to co-lead integrations from third-party systems into the nCino platform using any number of technical solutions based on the desired and proper approach for each unique project. • Document process and procedure to help streamline integration methodology. • Build and document testing requirements for unique projects. • Provide solution and integration development with Salesforce.com including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing and deployment. • Evaluate vendor API and interface specifications. • Handle multiple projects effectively while continuing to deliver exceptional quality. • Work independently and prioritize time and projects appropriately. • Translate customer requirements into implementation plans. • Drive customer success with a team player attitude. • Design a salesforce solution that meets the needs of the customer. • Effectively track time and bill for hours worked on customer projects. • Assist sales and sales engineering on technical prospec

Curious Minds. Bold Ideas. Extraordinary Impact . We're transforming financial services through bold innovation and relentless execution. You bring the ideas and drive. We'll build what's next — together. Essential Functions Ideate - Own the roadmap. Identify next highest priority problems to solve. Influence the company towards a strategic direction based on your knowledge and expertise Validate the roadmap with customers. Take output from junior product team members' research to advance the planning Plan - Represent Product vision and VOC for your feature/feature set in planning sessions with Design and Architecture/Eng. Be knowledgeable enough to challenge the approach and ensure the best approach is being pursued Build - Be involved in key milestones. Major stakeholder in sprint reviews and weekly demos Launch - Lead customer-facing Early Adopter conversations. Develop strategic launch plan with cross-functional team Grow - Help junior product team members' interpret success metrics, work with customer awareness nCino Product Knowledge - As the owner of your feature/feature set you should be able to lead conversations with customers in all segments about the value of your feature(s) in how they solve business problems as well as the vision and roadmap for the overall experience this feature connects to and how that will further add value to our customers. This will include objection handling through your deep knowledge of how other customers use the feature or have adjusted their business process to gain value. You understand how and why our solution is best-in-class (or how is measures up to competitors) Leverage AI and machine learning capabilities to enhance product decision-making, identify customer behavior patterns, forecast trends, and uncover unmet needs. Apply AI-powered analytics to validate product assumptions, track adoption, and surface opportunities for improvement. Collaborate with engineering to explore and integrate AI/ML features that add