Join us as a Full Stack Engineer in our growing Engineering organization and help shape the software products that power the banks most critical platforms.
You’ll be part of a modern, product-focused engineering team responsible for building and running the software that underpins all of our core infrastructure services. Bringing your full stack development experience and passion for quality engineering, you’ll help us strengthen our software engineering and DevOps practices as we continue to evolve our platform capabilities.
This is an opportunity to contribute to high-impact technology, grow your skills, and build a long‑term career in an environment that values innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.
Required Experience
* Proficiency in programming languages including Python or Java for backend development, and strong UI development skills using React, JavaScript, or similar modern frontend frameworks
* Database design and management (PostgreSQL, SQL, or Oracle), containerization technologies (OpenShift and Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines and orchestration tools, particularly GitLab
* Software architecture, design patterns, clean coding practices, microservices, and API development
Additional Highly Valued Skills
* Advanced knowledge in test‑driven development, behavior‑oriented design, and Agile methodologies
* Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders across all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
* Designing and implementing high‑quality, scalable, and resilient full stack solutions with cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Purpose of the Role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Accountabilities
* Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions by using industry‑aligned programming languages, 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, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
* Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing 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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
* To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness, collaborating closely with other functions/business divisions.
* Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well‑developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function; set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
* Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
* If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders must demonstrate these behaviours. If an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify need for inclusion of other specialisations, and identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, employing cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
* Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
* Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures to support the control and governance agenda.
* Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
* Perform work closely related to that of other areas, requiring understanding of coordination and contribution to organisation objectives.
* Collaborate with other areas of work, for business‑aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
* Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
* Communicate complex information, including sensitive or difficult-to‑communicate content.
* Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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