JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.
We're looking to recruit a Software Engineer to to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams.
You will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model.
Responsibilities include being involved in:
Producing high quality, well-tested and robust code using Java.
Supporting the maintenance & improvement of existing software, as well as the development of API's and Microservices.
Supporting the identification of opportunities to automate and simplify so we can deliver better quality products for our customers.
Participating in our Agile engineering practices & ceremonies.
Supporting our transition to cloud technologies.
Building a strong team by mentoring and developing team members.
About us
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.
What you'll need
You'll have a Software Engineering background with commercial experience operating as an experienced developer, having focused on Java as your main coding language over recent years.
You'll be able to uses design patterns, experience and best practices to design, test and amend complex programs.
You'll have medium to high skill coding in Java.
You'll have medium to high skill developing Springboot Microservices.
You'll understand the principles and practice of product and service quality assurance and control.
You'll understand end to end principles and concepts of DevOps.
You'll have good all-around knowledge of the software development lifecycle within a modern Agile engineering environment, familiar with Agile ceremonies & practices.
You'll have excellent communication & teamwork skills.
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
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.