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Brookwood Recruitment Ltd

Software Engineer - FinTech - Traveller Payments and RegTech

On site

London, United kingdom

£ 720 /day

Junior

Freelance

09-01-2026

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Skills

Java MySQL Cassandra Monitoring Analytics and Reporting Architecture Risk Assessment Programming AWS Software Development Recruitment Analytics Hadoop

Job Specifications

Software Engineer - FinTech

FinTech - Traveller Payments & RegTech - Software Engineer II

6 months initial Contract 
40 hours per week
£90 per hour (Inside IR35) - £720 Inside IR35 per day
1 day per week required in the London office

About the Regtech
The RegTech department in the Fintech Business Unit is dedicated to ensuring compliance and managing risks through innovative regulatory technology solutions. Our vision is to provide seamless, secure, and efficient regulatory processes that support the overall business objectives and enhance the experience for both our partners and internal stakeholders.
Our key focus areas include:
Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements through robust Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Partner (KYP) processes.
Providing seamless onboarding experiences for partners by integrating regulatory checks into the onboarding process.
Managing risks effectively by implementing advanced verification, risk assessment and monitoring tools.
Enhancing operational efficiency by automating regulatory processes and reducing manual interventions.
We are committed to building reliable foundations by prioritizing safety, resilience, and compliance in all our regulatory technology solutions. Our innovative approach continuously improves to meet the evolving needs of our business, ensuring that we stay ahead of regulatory changes and maintain the highest standards of compliance.

Role Description:
As a Software Engineer, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our services as well as internal systems. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems
Self-starters with a collaborative, “can-do” attitude
Solving issues with the systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
Advocating development best practices within the team
Be owner for teams’ micro-services and services
Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
Understanding the regulatory processes and how to best support our customers, partners and compliance officers. Providing compliance officers/analysts with enhanced tooling experience, analytics and reporting.
Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts

Qualifications & Skills:
Minimum of 3 years of software development experience; using 2 or more server-side programming languages. Experience with Java is a must
Experience with micro-services is a must
Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines with a focus on data integrity
Experience with multiple data storage technologies (MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra)
Experience with AWS (RDS, Step functions, EC2, Kinesis) is a plus.
Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms
Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and participating in architecture reviews for systems
Experience with Regulation, compliance policies is a plus
Past experience with payments or FinTech is a plus
Experience with security challenges for authentication and authorization
Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company-wide impact.
Experience in working with teams, colleagues spread across geographical locations is a plus.

About the Company

Brookwood Recruitment is a talent solution recruitment agency to a global client base. Specialising in Transformation and Change. Providing recruitment solutions across all sectors, delivering both full project teams as well as individual hires in perm and contract roles. We work with some of the biggest and most recognisable companies and have successfully helped our clients deliver change programs across IT, business operations, digital, tech and HR Whatever you are trying to achieve through digital transformation w... Know more