Job Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.


This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job description

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Join us as a Software Engineer, Backend

This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer, Backend to take on an exciting new career challenge Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions It's a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do

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In your new role, you'll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.


You'll also be:

Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

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To take on this role, you'll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture. You'll also need the ability to liaise with business stakeholders and strong presentation skills so you can showcase new features.


You'll bring experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. Ideally, you'll also have a background in AWS and internal private cloud such as VM Ware Tanzu or Apigee, but this isn't essential.


In addition, you'll need:

The knowledge and ability to work with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis including IntelliJ, JUnit, Mockito, RestAssured, Jira and Confluence Experience in multiple programming languages or low code toolsets such as Java, Spring Boot, Maven, microservices, REST APIs and Kafka * Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets including GitLab, shell scripting, CI/CD automation, Agile and Scrum