Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Software Engineer
Permanent
Salary – Up to £47,500 plus annual bonus & benefits
Location - Edinburgh
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid, and you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this position.
Closing Date - Applications close 21st November at 5pm
A chance to thrive
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering Practice and work with a team of talented software engineers in our Help Me Borrow Value Stream.
* You will help with the development, delivery, and optimisation of customer facing web applications that onboard customers into the bank and maintain their product holdings.
* You will be key in delivering value across the feature builds whilst collaborating with your fellow Software and Test Engineers to build new features and ensure the quality of our customer facing web applications.
* We work with Agile at scale and this is a unique opportunity to experience a modern engineering workplace.
What you’ll be doing
* This role will be focused on helping us create highly available Web Apps, using JavaScript/Typescript, React, and NodeJS. Apps are built on AWS and monitored using Datadog.
* As a Software Engineer, we’d be looking to you to build features and technical proofs of concepts, working with Senior and Lead Software Engineers to assist in design and discovery phases ultimately enhancing our Engineering team.
* Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
* Software engineers work closely with the senior software engineers and product owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our lead and principal engineers on our longer-term technology goals.
We need you to have
* Experience writing software in JavaScript, Node and one UI framework (such as React) along with experience of unit testing in this ecosystem.
* Ability to deliver high quality, easily maintainable and well tested code that can lead to rapid delivery allowing us to pursue continuous integration and delivery.
* Appreciation of web security concepts
* Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts as well as supporting and running the services, you have developed.
And if you have any of these, even better
* Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints
* Knowledge of TypeScript
* Experience developing code that follows accessibility guidelines
* Appreciation of AWS services and/or containerisation technologies
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What’s in it for you
* Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
* Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
* Performance related annual bonus.
* Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
* Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
* Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave.
* A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Everyone’s welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Why Tesco Bank?
We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one. It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
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