Software Engineer

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 working with new and innovative technology to deliver high-impact solutions
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• This role is available at analyst level

What you'll do

You’ll apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines.

We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output, alongside developing reusable libraries and application programming interfaces for use across our bank.

You’ll also:
• Design software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment processes on all environments
• Support the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams
• Deliver software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services
• Write unit and integration tests in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm.

You should also have development experience in a programming language and knowledge of how to use industry-recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:
• Experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales
• An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• The ability to understand and support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams