Job Description

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General information

Ref #

9379

Location

Edinburgh

Department

BAR - Engineering

Business Area

Engineering

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

17-09-2025


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

Salary -

from 38,720 to 48,400 + Benefits

Location

- Edinburgh, Permanent

Office Attendance

-

2 days

per week in our Edinburgh office

Closing Date

- Applications close 22nd September at 5pm

A career that works for you

We're looking for a

Software Engineers

to join our web engineering community 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'll be working with the latest technologies and keeping our software currency fresh.


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.

What you'll be doing

Helping us create highly available web Apps to onboard customers into the bank, using JavaScript/Typescript, React, NodeJS and Java. Apps are built on AWS. Building features and technical proofs of concept, working alongside with senior and lead software engineers to assist in design and discovery phases ultimately enhancing our engineering team. Working closely with our Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, Cloud Engineers and Test Engineers to shape the quality of our products and platforms. You'll be key in delivering features through route to live changes in an Agile way of working. Bringing your skills and experience, to make a significant impact on how we deliver software within our feature teams. Helping to continuously drive up the quality for our customers through implementing our best practices and standards.

We need you to have

Experience of TypeScript and/or JavaScript, Node, one UI framework (such as React) along with the tool ecosystem OR experience of Java and Spring Boot along with the tool ecosystem. Ability to write clean, well-tested code which can be easily maintained by large teams. Experience of best practises around unit testing. Experience of supporting and running the services, you have developed. Analytical and creative problem-solving skills. Working knowledge of AWS services. Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies.

And if you have any of these, even better

Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts. Understanding and exposure to integrating REST API endpoints. Understanding of containerisation technologies.

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. Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and 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.


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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.


Lovely.


Say hello to life in Tesco Bank.