Senior Software Engineer

JOB TITLE
: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY:
£70,929 - £76,000

LOCATION(S):
Leeds

HOURS:
Full time

WORKING PATTERN:
Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office site

About this opportunity
We're seeking a talented Senior Java Engineer to join our team You'll be responsible for designing and developing APIs and applications using Java Sprint Boot or Quarkus with high quality production ready code to deliver functionality to our colleagues and customers You'll be accountable for ensuring all decisions and development activities comply with Group standards during the full software development lifecycle within an agile environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and develop APIs and applications in Java with automated tests to ensure it meets business functionality.
• Implement monitoring for applications and analyse health & performance to improve.
• Be part of cross-functional product engineering team and adhere engineering standards throughout the software development life cycle.
• Pair with other engineers to review the code considering the quality standards agreed to follow in the team.
• Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a repository.
• Collaborate with architects and other senior engineers to produce application/design documentation.
• Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.
• Mentor/coach the engineers to deliver high quality applications that are designed for security, testing, maintainability and observability.

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

Essential Skills

• Hands on experience in building enterprise REST API (with open API standards) in Java and experience with Java frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Core and Spring Security.
• Good experience with Python.
• Experience with TDD practices like automated unit and integration tests and Dev Ops practices like CI/CD.
• Experience in designing and building high volume distributed event driven systems at scale, fault tolerant, resilience and highly observable.
• Good knowledge using modern microservices technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh, Helm.
• Experience implementing/deploying onto Public Cloud, ideally GCP.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and tooling.

Any experience of these would be really useful

• Java Quarkus.
• GKE, APIGEE, Networking & Security products on GCP.
• Messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka.
• Integrating with AI products such as Vertex AI on GCP (Gemini, Workbench).
• AI Prompt Engineering.
• Google Cloud Certification.
• Kubernetes Certification.

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.