Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Join Barclays as a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and improve software, utilising a range of engineering methodologies to deliver scalable business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

In this role, you will play a key part in driving innovation, ensuring high-quality solutions, and enhancing system performance while collaborating across teams to support the delivery of secure and reliable digital services.

Qualifications

• Considerable front end development skills using modern frameworks (React, Angular) and core web technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and responsive UI design principles.
• Proven back end development experience with Java and Spring technologies, including Spring Boot, REST APIs, and common security and integration patterns.
• Experience designing and building robust APIs, encompassing RESTful service design, versioning strategies, security (OAuth2/JWT), and performance optimisation.

Additional Skills

• Experience with domain driven design (DDD), event driven architectures, and event sourcing, with an understanding of how these patterns support scalable, maintainable distributed systems.
• Solid background in microservices architecture, including service decomposition, inter service communication, and the use of real time messaging frameworks (e.g. Kafka) to support asynchronous processing and resilience.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including deploying, configuring, and operating applications in cloud native environments.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job specific technical skills.

Location

This role will be based in Glasgow

Purpose of the Role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Company Values

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.