Senior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office

About this opportunity

Are you passionate about full stack development with frontend expertise? This is your chance to join our dynamic team and make a big difference. As a Band E Software Engineer, you will be working on exciting projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

You will be part of a collaborative team that values innovation and continuous improvement. Your role will involve developing and maintaining web applications, implementing new features, and ensuring the highest level of performance and user experience. You will also have the opportunity to mentor peers and junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Day to day, you'll be

• Developing and maintaining web applications, implementing new features and ensuring the highest level of performance and user experience.

• Support agile software development to enable continuous improvement within the team.

• Writing modular, clean, testable applications using design principles and patterns.

• Significantly contribute to the delivery of the Protection IFA offering.

• Contributing to levelling up how we design, build, and operate software at scale within the Bank through the wider engineering community.

• Technically mentoring and developing your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback through code reviews and design documents.

What you'll need

We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and exciting ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered, we’ll need to see evidence of the following in your CV:

• Significant experience with React and NodeJS.

• Strong understanding and experience of designing, building, and operating front end applications (particularly consuming microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems).

• Experience with testing libraries such as React Testing Library, SuperTest, and PlayWright.

• Confidence with building, testing, and deploying services into a cloud environment.

• A DevOps mindset.

• Experience mentoring peers and junior engineers.

• Strong understanding of web development principles, including JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and responsive design.

• Experience with cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.

• Experience designing, building, and operating services using Cloud Native services from any major Cloud provider.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers.

• A good understanding of Git, source code management, and leading change.

• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD).

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills.

• Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience with NestJS, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Experience building/maintaining CICD pipelines (Jenkins, GH Actions, etc.).

• Familiarity with GCP.

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.

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.