Backend Software Engineer
SALARY: £ 68,202 - £75,780 per annum
LOCATION(S): Manchester
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office in Manchester.
About this opportunity...
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Intelligent Gateway lab, for a backend engineer to further build, maintain and develop the banks telephony channel.
As a Lead Software Engineer within the Intelligent Gateway team, you'll be encouraged to work as part of an agile team to guide and implement technical solutions. You'll be responsible for promoting sound engineering practices and leading team members to architect, design, and implement those solutions.You'll be using Git to manage most of the source code, and SonarQube to help monitor code quality. Jira and Confluence are used heavily for task management and documentation.
You'll be an innovator and join us whilst we are about to head into the next phase of our transformation journey. We are looking for naturally passionate and curious engineers, with an innovative mind, who can make use of our newly delivered architecture and support the evolution to a full micro-service application that can drive change, further improve operational efficiency, and deliver at pace!
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!
What you'll need...
We like people who come from a diverse cultural background, with different ways of thinking who can challenge our current practices. That said, because of the nature of this role it is important to have existing knowledge and experience working in a software engineering role.
What minimum skills you'll need to apply:
Software Engineering:
- Experienced with the full software development lifecycle and relevant frameworks
- Java developer expertise (Spring or NodeJS)
- A proven track record of the Spring framework, Git workflows, testing (TDD, Mock object), and DevOps toolchains
- Cloud Deployment experience
- Experience with Rest APIs
- Experience of microservice design, container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm)
Communication & Collaboration:
- Phenomenal teamwork and communication skills as well as team leader/mentoring experience
Desirable skills:
- Experience with telephony platforms
- Experience with cloud technologies Google Cloud platform (GCP) others (ICP, Azure)
- A passion for delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles
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're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and creativity.We're actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from under-represented groups from candidates of all ethnicities, cultures and identities, and from candidates that identify as neurodiverse.
As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to support you in showcasing your best self; 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!