Software Engineer

at  Shawbrook Bank

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Hands-on experience (typically 2+ years) designing and writing code in Python.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering tools and approaches across all lifecycle stages.
• Basic knowledge of security and privacy best practices as well as how to accurately monitor, and log for production systems.
• Experience of working with a microservice based architecture is desirable.
• Any experience of composable banking would be a beneficial.

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Shawbrook is committed to providing opportunities to all candidates and understand that not all candidates may possess a qualification or education aligned to the role. We will assess each candidate on their individual experience and skills, and not solely on level of education.

PURPOSE & SCOPE OF ROLE

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our core banking team. You’ll be working in a collaborative and fast paced agile team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements and functionality. You’ll be ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout.
You’ll participate in agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, to understand business requirements, and take responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security.
Working with the support team, you’ll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in
production.
This is an exciting role, bringing a new skillset to the bank, with a chance to make a real impact and help to shape the products the bank can offer for years to come.

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing…

• Designing and writing code in Python, contributing to a range of customer facing products.
• Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes.
• Working with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of our software.
• Participating in agile ceremonies and backlog refinement sessions to understand business requirements, taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solutions.
• Documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system
• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.