Software Engineer - Front-end

Job Title Senior Software Engineer – Front-end  
Salary: £70,929 -  £78,810
Location: Bristol
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax Office.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

This vacancy sits within our Commercial Banking division, within the Client Servicing & Engagement (CSE) platform. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation, and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join.

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate to join us as a Front-End Engineer working as part of a cross-disciplinary feature team designing and developing products that spans the full stack in support of our continued journey onto Cloud.

What you’ll do

• Writing modular, well tested web applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale.

• Ensuring software is built in a way which is consistent with - and exploits where possible - the collective frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider Engineering community.

• Understand and apply industry best practices, foster knowledge sharing to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.

• Relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods

• Working alongside solution architects to help define designs

• Build efficient and reusable front-end systems and abstractions

• Identify and address quality/performance issues and implement engineering best practices

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, Engineers and DevOps Teams to build refine design, functionality, features and experiments

• Participate in design and process reviews and enhance the team’s capability.

What you’ll need

• Demonstrable front end engineering expertise with strong experience of JavaScript and React

• Any exposure to NodeJS beneficial

• Strong experience of RESTful APIs and web services

• Experience of React / AngularJS frameworks would be desirable

• Exposure to microservice frameworks such as Springboot would be desirable

• Exposure to micro-front end and micro-service api design, event driven architecture would be beneficial

• Strong understanding of source code repositories and change management tools, Git.

• Experience of working with Docker or other containerisation technologies

• Experience of successfully implementing and using CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of agile development practices and test automation (Unit/Integration/E2E testing – Jest/Testing Library/Cucumber/Cypress).

• Experience with build processes and release automation (Azure/GCP Pipelines, Nexus).

• Familiarity with development aiding tools such as npm and webpack etc. is advantageous.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!