About Albany BeckAlbany Beck are a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional career and personal development.Albany Beck are hiring a Full stack Engineer to support a Microservices & Cloud programme with a global investment bank.Key ResponsibilitiesBe hands-on, writing and delivering code into production, while contributing to the overall architecture and design of a microservices-based system.Understand business needs alongside engineering and non-functional requirements to help support ongoing growth.Help drive and reinforce the engineering culture across teams.Work closely with a globally distributed team, coordinating work across regions when needed.Proactively identify and remove blockers, highlight risks early, and communicate issues to programme management.Spot inefficiencies in existing processes and find practical, scalable ways to improve them.Essential Skills & ExperienceSolid experience as a software engineer, with a strong background in designing, building, and deploying backend services.Experience working in a microservices environment and delivering production-ready code.Comfortable releasing changes to production frequently.Hands-on experience building and deploying RESTful APIs.Experience designing database schemas and working with PostgreSQL.Nice to HaveJava experience, ideally with recent versions.Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, and experience with GCP is a plus.Experience building UI applications using React.Previous experience working in financial services, particularly banking.