Software Engineer

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.

Requirements

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.

Additional information

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done