Senior Software Engineer

As part of our growing engineering teamyou will be responsible for the creation and delivery of technical artefacts to deliver team objectives that are aligned to engineering and architectural strategy. Recognised as a technical SME and/or a task leader and/or a people leader. Provide technical leadership enabling technical decisions to be made with confidence and at pace. Help to provide quality solutions that meet KPIs/SLAs for the area.

We invest in our people to ensure we create multi-functional engineers and retain the skills within the organisation - youll be working on something truly meaningful with a supportive and close-knit team.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems to learn and to feel connected.

For this job youll spend at least two days per week or if part time youll spend 40% of your working time based at our Swindon London (Post Building) or Manchester offices.If your application is successful your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach tohybrid working here.

Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role if youre an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach tohybrid working here.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

If youre a colleague on long-term absence (for example on parental leave) or a temporary worker please use your personal email address to submit an application.

What youll be doing

Day-to-day youll be leading a team delivering first-class solutions in an Agile environment adopting DevOps practices to enable rapid iteration and driving continuous improvements. Youll work closely with the Lead Engineer and Technology Lead to ensure the quality of your solutions are resilient and stand up to being used by thousands of people every day.

Youll be responsible for mentoring and developing your team to help build our development process and strategies.

We want you to nurture and value proactive habits and to develop contacts and relationships so things are done faster and more efficiently. We will expect you to get stuck in and have a go and we will provide any support needed to learn new things in new areas.

Line Management responsibility within a feature team to include capability development coaching nurturing performance management and pastoral care.

On-call: This position does require on-call which is currently one week in every 12. This is a 24* rota and being on-call and call outs will be compensated.

About you

As a minimum requirement youll have:

• Proven experience in MSO systems and Mortgage sales and APIs is a must
• Knowledge of MSO forms engine and MSO workflow
• Proven experience of designing and implementing full-stack solutions with knowledge or JavaScript frameworks
• Experience designing and deploying microservices and distributed systems with usage of event streaming such as Kafka.
• Experience in AWS hosting APIs and using IAM S3 Lambda EKS Route53.
• Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes Git Source Control CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Harness) Infrastructure as Code
• Good understanding of modern development practices
• Experience of managing and leading small teams
• Working knowledge of emerging technologies e.g. cloud-native architectures DevOps engineering and container based continuous delivery cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience of coordinating complex release schedules managing cross-team dependencies and engaging stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and live proving activities with minimal operational risk.
  

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers shoes using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think were honest and direct with good intent openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand

• Push for better - We dont settle for mediocrity we challenge the status quo taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development

• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact we are decisive and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras youll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide including:

• 25 days holiday pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

Banking but fairer more rewarding and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual were owned by our members - those customers who bank save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We dont see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If youre inspired by fairer finances passionate about making a meaningful impact and truly care about our customers youre one of us.

At Nationwide you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter we work for the good of customers communities and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you please click the Apply Now button. Youll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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Disability Confident

Were not just guided by data were driven by the real experiences of our people. Were a Disability Confident Level 3 Leader the highest level.

Thats why were constantly evolving our policies and practices to make sure everyone feels genuinely supported valued and empowered to champion inclusion. Whatever your needs were here to support you. If you need any additional support throughout your application journey email our team atRecruitment Support.

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The hiring manager for this role is Vijay Thiagarajan and the main recruitment contact is Anoop Gosai.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role the job title on our internal systems will be Engineer E3.