Senior Software Engineer - Back End

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Back End

Salary: £68,202 - £83,358 pa.

Location:  Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds, Halifax, Bristol

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the office per week

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

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. Together, we’re here to help Britain prosper – putting the ever-evolving needs of our customers at the heart of everything we do, as they move through their financial life with us.

Across Consumer Relationship Platforms we’ve achieved so much in recent years, building our strong brands into thriving ones, the UK’s biggest digital bank and the widest branch network. Our multi-service, multi-brand offer is a unique strength, and we will work hard to ensure our brands continue to grow and succeed.

The way our customers want to deal with us is continuing to change, and they are telling us they need more from us. They need a seamless digital experience, with personalised products and services at their fingertips.

Are you passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems? Can you Build strong relationships and work efficiently with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations.  Across our Engineering teams, we’re creating new opportunities and products to improve customer experiences for years to come.

We’re always looking for good Software Engineers!  You’ll be taken through a centralised application, technical testing, and interviewing process, then if successful offered one of our available roles depending on your chosen location.

We currently have a number of Software Engineering positions available across a range of locations in the UK.

We’re always looking for good Software Engineers!  You’ll be taken through a centralised application, technical testing, and interviewing process, then if successful offered one of our available roles depending on your chosen location.
 

We currently have a number of Software Engineering positions available across a range of locations in the UK.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.


About the role

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.
• Be at the heart of delivery in your team building features with a passion for evolving best practices within your community.
• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.
• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.
• You'll love to solve Customer problems using technology and Engineering practices
• You'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Build efficient and reusable back-end systems and abstractions.

What you’ll need

Essential

• Design and develop applications in Java with automated tests to ensure it meets business functionality
• Experience with Golang, including developing, testing and maintaining applications
• Use the Spring Boot framework for building our Microservices
• Hands-on experience working with APIs
• Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous development (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code (IaC)

Desirable

• Good knowledge using modern technologies e.g. SQL Databases etc.
• Experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally GCP or AZURE
• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale
• Agile experience and excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong experience of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in delivery of software.
• You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste

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
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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