FinStart Rotational Program – Associate Software Engineer

Overview
 

Our FinStart Rotational Program opportunities will be available soon! In the meantime, we would love to engage with those who are looking to kick start their career in 2025 and be part of our talent pool.  

Please apply online here to leave your details and we'll be back in touch as soon as we're ready to welcome your application. 

Please note that this is not a job application; you are simply registering your interest at this stage.Please do actively apply for roles if you see something of interest to you.   

About the role/opportunity

Finastra is actively seeking talented, ambitious, and curious individuals to join our FinStart Program starting in Summer 2025.  This unique development program is an excellent opportunity to accelerate your career, by enhancing your skills, building meaningful relationships, and participating in challenging and innovative projects while rotating through various areas of the firm.

You will be supported with mentorship and training throughout the program to help guide your career development and while you take on various challenges you will get to work with awesome people in a highly collaborative environment.

Here’s what you can expect.

• A development program designed to give you exposure to our different business areas within the Engineering paths to gain an understanding of Finastra as a whole.
• Rotations may include spending 12m across different areas such as Payments, Lending, Retail banking or our Engineering Centre of Excellence.
• An enriching learning and mentorship program, which will help you enhance your career and develop highly transferable technical skills. 
• The opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with various teams across Finastra.
• A chance to learn more about the fintech industry and how you can contribute to a world of open finance.
• Being part of a global FinStarter cohort across the globe within different functions and areas of the business and joining numerous developmental and social events
• Flexibility to work in a hybrid model, both from home and from the office.

What you’ll do.

• Within each rotation you will be placed into the engineering teams and will support on a variety of activities, for example:
  • Participates in software design meetings and analyses user needs to determine technical requirements
  • Technical design, systems analysis, coding, unit and integration testing of changes to existing applications.
  • Create Unit Tests, with the goal of increasing test coverage of overall system
  • Support and Enhance Nightly Build Automations
• Interacts with internal stakeholders to deliver various technology solutions
• Be an active team player in an agile development environment
• Maintenance of existing features/modules
• Interpreting internal/external business challenges and recommending design solutions or best practices to improve products, processes, or services

Required Experience:

• A undergraduate (or masters) degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Strong C/C++ skills (including OO and STL)
• Java knowledge is a plus
• Good spoken and written English
• Good Unix or Windows skills
• SQL
• UML skills / Design Patterns

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to develop and grow within a friendly and team-orientated international business  

Finastra: Who are we?

At Finastra our purpose is to unlock the power of finance for everyone. We build and deliver innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. We’re one of the world’s largest FinTech’s working with over 9,000 customers, including 90 of the top 100 banks globally. Our scale and reach allow us to build long-lasting relationships that put our customers and their customers first.

Your future at Finastra

We believe that finance is OPEN. By focusing on OPEN Collaboration and OPEN Finance, supported by our OPEN Platform, we can create financial inclusion and open innovation for everybody. Our people are our greatest asset and we provide an environment where you can develop and grow your career. From graduates to experienced professionals, we’re leaders in our roles and a key part of making Finastra one of the world’s leading FinTech’s.

Why join us?

Alongside amazing colleagues and engaging work, we want to help you get the best out of your career. We offer continuous learning and development to take your skills to the next level. It’s not just about being the best you can be at work we also a variety benefits to make your non-work life better; including paid holiday, flexible working, pension, health and well-being initiatives and many more. If you’re looking to build your career, work with experts and most of all have fun, join us.

At Finastra finance is open. For more information, please view our website: www.finastra.com/careers