Lead Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

End Date Saturday 04 November 2023 Salary Range £85,255 - £155,465 We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary Lead Software Engineer for the Commercial Lending Origination Client Digital Journeys team, leading the technical implementation, championing software engineering practices and coaching the team to build the bank of the future. Job DescriptionLead Full Stack EngineerLocation:BristolHours: Full timeWorking Pattern: Minimum of 2 days a week in the officeAbout the roleWe’re creating exciting opportunities within the Commercial Lending Origination Lab to improve customer experiences for our Commercial Banking clients for years to come.With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals to join us on this journey. Working alongside our partners in the Commercial Bank will put you at the heart of the digitisation agendafor both clients and colleagues.We’re looking for someone who is passionate, inspiring and customer-obsessed, ensuring that the team are always focused on the priorities that will deliver the best outcomes for our customers and colleagues.Were hugely proud of the relationships we hold with our clients and key partners as trusted delivery providers. This is key to our success.Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge.What will I be responsible for

• As a Lead Software Engineer for Commercial Lending Origination, as well as creating, building, supporting and improving our software, youll also be responsible for guiding and leading our software engineers to collaborate with Product and other Engineeringteams and colleagues to achieve this.
• As an experienced engineer youll champion software engineering practices that align with architectural and group strategies and coach/mentor your team to deliver a quality product.
• Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy where we are making it simpler, safer, faster and more sustainable for clients to borrow through their channel of choice.
• Creating whenever, wherever optionality through on and off bank routes. One of our main challenges is to digitise our client and colleague experience and you’ll play a key part in achieving that.
• Our Software Engineers should have skills and experience that enable them to design and create innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world. Understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key. We employ a left-shift paradigmand have a passion for quality over all else.
• Encouraging the right culture is key and you’ll embrace a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” approach. Experimenting new ways of engineering and adopting a test and learn approach, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.

Essential skills & experience:

• Strong experience of both React and Java/NodeJS (spring or other framework) and microservices architecture.

• Sound experience in using and adopting a wide range of engineering practices and tools including feature team or component team delivery across the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience of agile Development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment, and Test Automation, GHE source code management and the E2E software development lifecycle.

• A proven background in Software Engineering, producing quality artefacts.
• Good knowledge of Javascript and SQL/RDBMS/NoSQL.
• Experience developing with APIs.
• A good level of technical maturity and be familiar with cloud-based tech with a firm grasp of emerging technologies.

• Experience of leading, coaching and developing engineering colleagues in a line management capacity.

Desirable skills & experience

• Experience in cloud based development, namely containers, container orchestration and associated development/design patterns.
• Experience of Azure, Google or AWS Cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of Typescript.

• Experience of BDD.

About working for usOur focus is to ensure that 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 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 performance-related bonus• 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 Ready for a career w