Job Description

General information

Ref #

9449

Location

Edinburgh

Department

BAR - Engineering

Business Area

Engineering

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

28-11-2025

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary -

From 30,000 + annual bonus & benefits

Location -

Edinburgh, Permanent

Office Attendance

- Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date

- Applications close Friday 5th December at 5pm

A career that works for you

We're looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join out Customer Experience (CX) Platform team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.


This role will be focused on helping us continuously drive-up high quality and secure applications through implementing our best practices and standards. You will be working with the latest technologies and keeping our software currency fresh.



You'll be closely working with our Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, Cloud Engineers and Test Engineers to shape the quality of our products and platforms.



We encourage continuous learning and self-development through our learning pathways.

What you'll be doing

This role will be focused on helping us create highly available web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js and Next.js. Apps are built on AWS. As an Associate Software Engineer, and with support, we'd be looking to you to build features and technical proof of concepts, working alongside with our Software Engineers and Senior Engineers. You will assist in design and discovery phases ultimately enhancing our engineering team. You'll be key in delivering features through route to live changes in an Agile way of working. Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practises and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.

We need you to have

Basic understanding of and experience of IDE's. An understanding of software design patterns and principles. A degree in computing (or related discipline), or experience in a software engineering role. Understanding of Unit Testing concepts.

And if you have any of these, even better

Understanding of AWS. Understanding of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Knowledge of Agile ways of working and ceremonies. Knowledge of BDD and/or end-to-end testing.




We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What's in it for you

Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme. Virtual GP Service 365 days a year. Performance related annual bonus. Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more. Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else. Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave. A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.



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How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.


Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more.

Why Tesco Bank?

Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.


It means we put your wellbeing first and give you bags of support, training and development, so you can build the career that's right for you. It's about looking after each other with the same care that we give to our customers.


We've created an environment where everyone feels included, accepted and welcome. Which means you can bring your whole self to work every day and totally thrive at the same time.


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