Senior Software Engineer

You will be working as a Senior Software Engineer in the product team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features enhancements and functionality using Agile methodologies ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout

Youll work with the QA team to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software and will participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution bearing in mind non-functional requirements around performance and security.

Working with the support team youll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. You will also take responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system

You must be able to work across multiple facets of projects and be able to juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time.

You will engage directly with IT management development teams technical delivery teams and vendors to ensure the successful design development and delivery of technology-based solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building and maintaining application software to further our product delivery objectives.  As a growing team with a broad remit this role offers excellent exposure to business users and management where you will be able to clearly see the impact of the work you and the team are doing.
• Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical efficient and permanent technical solutions.
• Assist in task planning estimation scheduling and staffing
• Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice coaching and training opportunities
• Be a strong voice in all team ceremonies including planning estimation and backlog refinement.
• Provide a technical view point in discussions on resource assignment
• Working with the support team to deployment and monitor services in production.
• Taking responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system
• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses reading manuals and accessing new applications.
• Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes
• Strict adherence to Shawbrook technical standards

Qualifications :

Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience of experience designing and building complex software end-to-end systems which have been efficiently delivered to production
• Broad experience designing programming and implementing large information systems.
• Ability to work independently
• Expert in at least one language (C# Python Javascript Pega or Salesforce) including object-oriented design
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills

Key attributes

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate with all levels from peers through to managers.
• Growth mindset

Additional Information :

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns mental wellbeing and more general queries around family work housing and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - Its important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when youre enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - Were focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time