Senior Software Engineer - VP - Business Banking - Knutsford, Manchester

We are supporting a leading Tier 1 Bank, who are going through a completely greenfield on-shoring transformation within the business banking engineering capabilities. They are going through an exciting journey to establish a next engineering centre with the best-in-class technologists and teams across the UK.

This is a rare opportunity for someone who has a strong hands on background in Java, with a heavy focus on AWS architecture. These roles will have a focus on strategy and mentoring of junior engineers, while working hands on to lead the projects.

What you'll do

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming , frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Critical Skills

• Writes, contributes to and reviews relevant design docs on behalf of their team and that affect their team
• Previous first hand experience operating high scale production systems. Knows about reliability, visibility, operational readiness, and the health of their team’s systems in depth
• Communicates team work and influences the roadmap within their team. Builds cross-team relationships
• Has deep knowledge of at least one public cloud provider (AWS preferable, but could be GCP, Azure). Knows about the internals, networking security to a reasonable level.
• T Shaped engineer - skilled in at least one technology (ie, Java, React) but competent with others.

This is a Permanent role based in Knutsford with Hybrid working (2 days in office)