Software Engineer II
Salary: £47,120 – £58,900
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Hybrid; 2 days per week at Manchester site (40% of time)
What you’ll be doing
As a Software Engineer II, you’ll play a key role in transforming our Core Banking Platform by leveraging modern technologies and innovative approaches such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and microservices-based architecture. You’ll bring a solid technical background, ideally with experience in building microservice or event‑driven systems. Drawing on your expertise, you will propose and establish engineering standards, drive technical excellence, and coach other team members, ensuring they adopt best practice and design secure, resilient platforms that are easy to maintain.
In this role you’ll:
- Actively contribute to the codebase while collaborating with architects and cross‑functional teams to design scalable software solutions.
- Build strong relationships and support team development through mentoring and coaching, with a focus on collective success.
- Develop a deep understanding of the business domain and processes to effectively translate user needs into stories and technical tasks.
- Drive efficient breakdowns of work, ensuring non‑functional requirements like security and performance are well considered.
What we’re looking for
- Good expertise in Object‑Oriented Design and back‑end development with deep knowledge of Java (minimum 2 years).
- Solid understanding of software fundamentals such as threading, memory management, debugging, and clean coding practices.
- Proven ability to drive technical delivery and communicate effectively, promote agile ways of working, and mentor others.
- Comfort in both technical and business conversations, with a delivery‑focused mindset.
Optional experience
- Experience with Test‑Driven Development and test automation.
- Familiarity with Domain‑Driven Design.
- Knowledge of Microservices, Spring Boot, REST protocol, Apache Kafka.
- Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes for containerized development and deployment.
- Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform.
Benefits
- 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.
- 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We recognise that skills are developed in many ways and encourage applicants with relevant, transferable experience to apply.
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