Senior Software Engineer

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer – Payments Services Platform

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION(S): Birmingham

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 Birmingham office.

About this opportunity…

We're looking to recruit a Senior Software Engineer to work in our International & CHAPS Lab providing payment options for all of our customers. Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP). This product is being used to deliver key revenue streams as well as enable mandatory compliance. What follows is what you might find our Software Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

How you’ll make a difference…

You'll be an experienced Software Engineer preferably with International SWIFT and Payments experience with previous knowledge of integrating, introducing, and supporting 3rd Party packages, including bespoke solution configuration and rules-based engineering into a Payments production environment.

• You’ll have all-around knowledge of the software development lifecycle, ideally within a modern Agile engineering function.
• You’ll have good communication & teamwork skills
• You'll have good Problem-solving skills within a technical environment.
• You'll be able to work with 3rd party supplier to drive defect management
• You'll be able to support planning and implementing production changes
• Ensuring solutions meet the necessary requirements.

What you’ll need…

• Full-stack experience and flexible enough to work on front end or back end tasks
• Experience and broad knowledge of modern design patterns (microservice) using modern web technologies, especially JavaScript (Node.js and React.js) as well as RESTful APIs and WebServices.
• Experience of leading teams in Cloud projects (GCP preferred)
• Experience of DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Harness), container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio) and cloud technologies (GDP, OCP)
• A deep understanding of GIT source code management and managing change into production
• Experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation and how to deliver well maintainable and testable applications in critical environments.

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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 performance-related bonus
• 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