This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
- You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
- Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
Working in the Engineering Platforms team, you’ll be delivering modern software development tools chain for engineers across the bank, protecting them from the complexities of developing and delivering applications. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.
You’ll also be:
- Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
- Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
- Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
- Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:
- A background in software development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
- Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development, automated test frameworks, monitoring, observability, and automation practices
- A background in designing or implementing APIs and highly available, resilient services
- The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product, business, operational, and reliability requirements into technical solutions
- A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools, wikis, and observability platforms
