This is an exciting opportunity to join our Originations team, which is the front door of Nationwide. The Originations team is responsible for the design, build, test and support of the origination journeys across Retail products. Our objective is to deliver a suite of origination services on common cloud technology to our customers and colleagues.
As a software engineer in Originations you'll be working in one of our agile scrum teams, to build and enhance the Originations journeys our customers use to open new accounts with Nationwide. Our applications are the first thing many of our customers see, so to work in this role it is vital you have a keen eye for detail and you won't be afraid to speak up with suggestions and/or improvements. In return, we offer the opportunity to work in a wide variety of development areas. You'll be able to get involved in the breadth and depth of the development process, enabling you to progress your skills and career.
We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.
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 you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon or Bournemouth office. 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 to hybrid working here .
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doing
Harnessing your experience of software development techniques and technologies, you'll be working within an agile team to design, develop and support the applications our customers use to apply for our products, e.g. savings accounts.
As someone who collaborates well with others, you'll be working with engineers; experts in experience design; application security and resilience to create intuitive, performant, and secure originations journeys for our customers.
You'll be using the latest tools and technologies together with leading software engineering principles and practices to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and performant services. A typical stack could include, React applications communicating with secure APIs provided by containerised Kubernetes .NET services interacting with MongoDB all running on either AWS or Azure Cloud Platforms.
About you
* Experience of developing API services using Microsoft .NET C#
* An understanding of what good code looks like, how to write it, and how to unit test it
* Experience working with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
* You've got the right aptitude and attitude to work in one our teams:
o You can learn, develop, and master new skills
o You enjoy challenges and solving problems
o You recognise the importance of working on code as a team
o You can review other's work, improve team practices, and collaborate on designs
o You help others and enable them to succeed
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 - we're 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 don't 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 you'll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
* A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
* Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
* Life assurance worth 8x your salary
* A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
* Access to an annual performance related bonus
* Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
* 25 days holiday, pro rata
Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society
We forge our own path at Nationwide.
As a mutual, we're owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don't 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 you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you're 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. You'll 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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