A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracinga fintechculture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners.
Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and corporate clients. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy.
Our platform & infrastructure team provide the hardened, high-velocity foundations that allow our product teams to ship code to production that moves billions of pounds with total confidence. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Platform team, you are a builder and multiplier for how our engineering organisation ships software. This is a high-impact execution role where you’ll lead wide-ranging deliverables, improve the developer experience, and help set strong engineering defaults, while still staying hands‑on with product and delivery colleagues.
The successful candidate will be based in London. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office‑based presence expected.
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 optimised 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.
* Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organisation’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.
Qualifications
To be successful as a Staff Software Engineer you should have experience with;
* Extensive experience building complex, scalable systems. You’ve seen things break at scale, and worked to resolve issues in a sustainable way.
* Detailed command of Cloud, Kubernetes, and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
* A polyglot mindset – expertise of at least two languages (e.g., Rust, Go, Kotlin) and a "right tool for the job" philosophy.
Preferred Skills
* Ability to bring both technical and non‑technical stakeholders on the journey, explaining complex technical trade‑offs to those who might not know what a "service mesh" is.
* Product thinking – you treat the platform as a product, with fellow engineers as your customers.
* Good experience of collaboration with various stakeholders such as Product Managers.
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