Applications Developer

Job Summary 

This role is responsible for designing, developing, maintaining and supporting business-critical applications that underpin Bottomline payment and financial technology solutions. Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, the Applications Developer will contribute to the delivery of high-quality software enhancements, defect resolution and customer-focused improvements across existing and new platforms. The role is ideally suited to an individual with 2–4 years of hands-on experience in Visual Basic and Java development, preferably gained within the payments, banking or wider financial services industry. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical capability, a structured approach to problem solving, and a commitment to delivering reliable, scalable and secure solutions in line with established engineering standards. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Designing, developing and maintaining applications and software components using Visual Basic and Java. 

• Supporting the enhancement and maintenance of existing payment and financial software solutions. 

• Contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation and support. 

• Troubleshooting application issues, identifying root causes and delivering timely defect resolution. 

• Collaborating with Product, QA, Support and other Engineering teams to deliver software changes aligned to business and customer requirements. 

• Writing clean, maintainable and well-documented code in accordance with development standards and best practices. 

• Preparing and executing unit tests, supporting integration testing and assisting with user acceptance testing where required. 

• Participating in code reviews and contributing to continuous improvement in code quality, performance and security. 

• Assisting with production support activities, including investigation of incidents and implementation of fixes. 

• Working with databases, interfaces and file-based integrations commonly used in payment and finance systems. 

• Supporting technical documentation including design notes, release information and support handover material. 

• Actively building knowledge of Bottomline solutions, payment workflows and financial industry requirements to support ongoing development and innovation. 

Customer Focus 

• Providing a positive service that exceeds customer expectations  

• Supporting the department to achieve exceptional levels of customer service by ensuring that processes and controls are maintained. 

Collaboration  

• Ensuring the effective use of resources  

• Establishing common processes and sharing best practice  

• Ensuring that project issues are escalated in a timely manner  

• Ensuring good levels of communication with other departments  

Innovation  

• Establishing, monitoring and improving departmental processes. Strive to standardize and introduce economies of scale 

• Sharing lessons learnt within the team and department  

• Supporting the roll out of new solutions. 

Continuous Improvement 

• Participating in peer review of tasks, challenging and reviewing best practices   

• Taking ownership of a particular process, product or domain. Becoming a Subject Matter Expert  

• Actively participate in personal and team development initiatives, fostering growth and adaptability. 

Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours Required. 
If you have two or more of the skills listed below, we would like to hear from you. 

• Experience in banking application implementations and knowledge of ACH/WIRE/ Foreign drafts/SWIFT and other payment methods. 

• Proficiency in SQL and XML for data mapping and transformations. 

• MQ and Linux knowledge. 

• Demonstrate a capacity for critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. 

• Great verbal and written communication skills. 

• Good organisational skills. 

• A responsible attitude. 

• Energetic and positive. 

• Good 'people skills' for building relationships with colleagues and customers at all levels. 

• Calmness under pressure.