JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Front End)
SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000
LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We're looking for Front End Software Engineers to join our Mass Affluent Digital Experience (MADE) lab in Leeds. We have close to three million Mass Affluent customers, and we are working hard to create a greenfield personalised and tailored offering to ensure a beautiful banking experience. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers' fingertips, while our face-to-face, telephone, and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service. A major part of the Group strategy is to grow in the mass affluent market, and the new Mass Affluent team is focused on designing a new digitally led proposition for this segment of customers.
About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
Here's how you'll make a difference
* Having an excellent understanding of Agile software development and supporting continuous improvement of your team.
* Write modular, clean, testable applications using design principles such as SOLID and DRY.
* Significantly contribute to the delivery of strategic front end that supports the Mass Affluent Digital Experience offering.
* Contribute to levelling up how we design, build, and operate software at scale within the Bank through the wider engineering community.
* Technically mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback through code reviews and design documents.
What do we need to see from applicants
We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered, we'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV:
* Strong understanding and experience of designing, building, and operating front end applications (particularly consuming microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems). We use the React & Redux framework for building our CWA front end application. Strong understanding of web development principles, including JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and responsive design. Experience with cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
* Experience designing, building, and operating services using Cloud Native services from any major Cloud provider. We run our services on Kubernetes on GCP.
* Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers.
* A good understanding of Git, source code management, and managing change.
* Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD).
* Excellent interpersonal and team working skills.
* Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
* Share schemes including free shares.
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive?
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