Principal Software Engineer

• You are a problem solver with a strong background in software engineering

• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation 

Do work that matters

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our fast-paced team. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in driving the technical direction of our projects, with a primary focus on system architecture and design, implementation of best practices and reusable patterns, and endorse new designs and patterns for wider usage.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions using wide tech stack. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, exceptional problem-solving skills, and a passion for building robust systems.  

See yourself in our team

As a member of the Operations Technology (Ops Tech) division, you will contribute to the technology products and services we deliver, from architecture, technical design and coding to deployment to operation. Our Ops Tech products and services are leveraged across many Business Unit Platforms within the Bank to deliver industry-leading software.

The role is a Principal Software Engineer in the Workflow Crew, that builds workflow platforms for consumption by many Business Units.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and deploy high quality software solutions with comprehensive test coverage.

• Analyse business objectives and identify functional and non-functional requirements.

• Design and implement technical solutions for functional and non-functional requirements.

• Provide accurate estimates for the development effort for new features.

• Continuously improve and improvise to find the best solutions for business and technical teams

• Provide mentoring and technical assistance to other members of the team.

• Work well with different team members whilst practicing knowledge sharing and T-shaping

• Apply and promote industry best patterns and practices with focus on test automation.

• Take ownership of initiatives and assets and follow up to provide highest quality of customer service

• Contribute to the strategic engineering goals within own team / platform  

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are curious, life-long learners

• Can Influence the future of the company’s technology estate every day

• Can create a culture focussed on accelerating the adoption of new and emerging technologies

Technical Skills:

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

• Extensive experience in enterprise-level engineering.

• Expertise with API specification, design, registration and tooling

• Experience in distributed, low latency environments.

• Language orientation: Experience on C#, .NET Framework Core, essential. SOAP/REST APIs, Microservices and containerisation a plus. Node, Python and scripting knowledge useful

• Soft skills: Excellent communication skills. Working experience with Agile methodologies.

• Cloud: Experience on cloud migrations and deployment, with preference for Azure Cloud, and Power Platform

• Artificial Intelligence: Experience in AI technologies, particularly around tooling enhancements will be valued.

• Data engineering: expertise in building a data lake using real-time and near real-time services, along with data transformation, aggregation, and offering through API endpoints

• CI/CD: expertise with usage and configuration of fully automated pipelines is useful. This includes GitHub Actions, Artifactory and Azure DevOps. 

• DevOps: Familiarity with DevOps-managed environments. Specifically, around observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Promethius, PagerDuty)

• Test Automation: Unit/Integration/Acceptance/Performance testing experience in API.

• Security: Defence in depth, including identity management, encryption and public cloud security obligations

• Databases: Relational databases (e.g. Postgres / Oracle), as well as data warehousing and No-SQL databases (MongoDB). 

• Familiarity in event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ) and orchestration (Apache Camel, Temporal, Mulesoft)

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office.