Software Engineer | S | Retail & Business Banking | Milton KeynesCountry: United Kingdom
Join our community.
Join our community at Santander UK, where innovation and successful systems delivery are key. As part of our entrepreneurial team, you’ll work on a transformation program, unifying systems on Salesforce. You will use Angular for the front end and Spring Boot for the back end, building impactful software solutions. We’re passionate about helping people and businesses prosper, and we strive to be simple, personal, and fair in everything we do.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to grow and learn through the challenge of building software in a highly dynamic and inventive environment. We value up-skilling the entire team. To this end, we are seeking candidates who will contribute to the continuous improvement of our team, both through teaching and through learning.
If you’re a passionate full stack engineer eager to make a difference, we want you on our team!
The difference you’ll make.
1. Collaborating with your colleagues and different stakeholders, ensuring user stories are both functionally and technically refined and understood at the correct level.
2. Delivering quality code - using Java, Springboot and Angular amongst others
3. Practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) with the goal of having sufficient confidence in our test coverage to enable direct and continuous delivery of our software into production.
4. Ensuring delivered solutions are developed under DevOps practices and latest technology trends.
5. Supporting by keeping the solutions delivered running healthy in production, minimizing incidents, and maximizing quality of service.
6. Contributing to the continuous improvement of our team, both through teaching and through learning.
What you’ll bring.
7. Knowledge and experience of Java, Springboot and Angular.
8. Self-motivation, collaboration skills, and pride in producing clean, well-tested code.
9. Energy and enthusiasm for working with other developers collaboratively in an agile team.
10. A commitment to craftsmanship and delivering excellent results.
It would also be nice for you to have.
11. Knowledge and experience of TDD.
12. A commitment to craftsmanship and delivering excellent results.
13. Familiarity with continuous delivery practices.
14. Experience developing and working with REST microservices.
What else you need to know.
Our tech stack is Java backed built using Spring Boot backed by a PostgreSQL database, and Angular based front end. We deploy into a PaaS using a Jenkins pipeline. We also interface with Git and the Gitlab API. We are in the process of transitioning towards an event-driven architecture.
We practice Test Driven Development with the goal of having sufficient confidence in our test coverage to enable direct and continuous delivery of our software into production.
This role is predominantly based at our office in Milton Keynes. While we are currently following a hybrid office/home based work pattern at the present time, you will need to be able to attend the office in Milton Keynes when required to do so – with a potential move back to permanent office-based working.
How we’ll reward you.
As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.
15. Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
16. Pension with generous contributions of up to .% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us.
17. days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to days after yrs service, with the option to purchase up to contractual days per year.
18. Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: Bupa medical insurance, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments.
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A bit more about Santander
At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.
At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander, and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.
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