Software Engineering, Technology
Software Engineer
Closing date for applications: 14/01/2025
Manchester, United Kingdom
Permanent
Full Time
#R-00247895
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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Job description
Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
- You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
- Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
What you'll do
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.
You’ll also be:
- Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
- Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
- Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
- Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements. You’ll also need production experience using React, GraphQL, TypeScript, Node.JS, Jest/Vitest, MySQL, serverless functions and NPM.
Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:
- Knowledge of continuous integration and delivery tooling including GitHub actions and Terraform
- Production experience with Amazon Web Services, single page and progressive web apps and monorepo architectures
- Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
- Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
- Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
- Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
Our tech stack
Here’s just some of the technologies we use.
Front end
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- AngularJS
Back end
- Python
- Java
- Microsoft Dynamics
DevOps
- AWS
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Platform
Data
- Kafka
- Hadoop
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake
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