JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office
About this opportunity
We’re looking to recruit a Software Engineer to work within the Payments Services Platform in Edinburgh. Specifically, to support our Instant Payments products and working on some of the most cutting edge development work happening across the Bank. You will be helping to build, maintain and enhance our Faster Payments Gateway which process a high volume of all transactions across the UK.
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. There will be a huge amount of learning opportunities within this role and you will be working alongside some of the most talented engineers in the industry,
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…
What you’ll need…
- Understanding of application development and familiarity with technologies such as Java (ideally Java 17), Spring Boot, Maven, Kafka (including Kafka Streams), RESTful APIs, and web services.
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, preferably within an Agile environment, with some exposure through academic projects, internships, or personal work.
- Knowledge of development best practices and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts, with familiarity with tools like Jenkins or similar.
- Ability to write simple to complex, maintainable code and a willingness to learn how to build modular and testable applications.
- Ability to learn, troubleshoot and diagnose issues using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Kibana.
- Knowledge of version control systems, especially Git.
- Good understanding of IT service management concepts, such as Change, Incident, and Problem management.
- Experience with agile development practices and an interest in learning about test automation tools and techniques (e.g., TDD, BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Better understanding or interest in container technologies like Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Familiarity with testing methodologies such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
It would be great if you also had experience in…
- An interest in the financial services sector, especially in areas like Faster Payments or BACS will be helpful.
- Supports and enables others to use and benefit from existing data management systems.
- Develops personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as required.
- Identifies shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, then uses established change management programmes to deliver prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services.
- Helps others use and benefit from the existing knowledge management systems.
- Supports others by performing prescribed product development/engineering activities (e.g., analysing client situations, interpreting data, etc.) using existing procedures.
- Navigates a wide variety of existing processes, procedures and precedents to interpret data and identify possible answers.
- Uses product specifications to design test procedures and standards.
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.
Benefits
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
28 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.
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