Senior Software Engineer – Barclays
This role will be based in Glasgow.
Join Barclays as a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and improve software, utilising a range of engineering methodologies to deliver scalable business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
In this role, you will play a key part in driving innovation, ensuring high-quality solutions, and enhancing system performance while collaborating across teams to support the delivery of secure and reliable digital services.
Responsibilities
* Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance optimization.
* 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.
* Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to 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.
Qualifications
* Considerable front‑end development skills using modern frameworks (React, Angular) and core web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS) and responsive UI design principles.
* Proven back‑end development experience with Java and Spring technologies (Spring Boot, REST APIs) and common security and integration patterns.
* Experience designing and building robust APIs, encompassing RESTful service design, versioning strategies, security (OAuth2/JWT), and performance optimisation.
* Experience with domain‑driven design (DDD), event‑driven architectures, and event sourcing.
* Solid background in microservices architecture, including service decomposition, inter‑service communication, and use of real‑time messaging frameworks (e.g. Kafka).
* Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including deployment, configuration, and operation of cloud‑native applications.
Additional Highly Valued Skills
* Experience adopting domain‑driven design (DDD), event‑driven architectures, and event sourcing.
* Experience with microservices architecture and real‑time messaging frameworks.
* Experience with cloud platforms and cloud‑native application operation.
Expectations
* Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
* Lead a team performing complex tasks and deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
* Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
* Guide collaborative assignments and identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation.
* Consult on complex issues and provide advice to People Leaders to support resolution of escalated issues.
* Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies or procedures to support control and governance.
* Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls.
* Collaboration with other areas to support business‑aligned activities and strategy.
* Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources.
* Communicate complex information effectively.
* Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Legal and Values Statement
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. 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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