Software Engineer

Management Level

The Engineer role is a key role within the team. With some domain knowledge, they are involved in the full lifecycle of features, often working with other engineers to deliver. They ensure continuous improvement, understand the department strategies and provide some input to some practices, toolkits and processes. 

Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level: 2 - Assist 

• Involve yourself in the implementation of software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products while ensuring you adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home 

• Show individual engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality and promote these qualities in more junior members of your Squad and Home 

• Show interest in the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; involve yourself in adoption of these within your squad as required  

• Contribute towards optimization of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs 

• Participate in code reviews for inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, quality, etc. to drive higher engineering productivity and quality 

• Escalate, document, and manage issues related to product design, feature set, and functionality at appropriate levels to ensure delivery goals are met as per defined plans 

Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill: Programming/software development PROG at Level 3 

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors moderately complex programs/scripts. 

• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result. 

• Monitors and reports on progress. Identifies issues related to software development activities. Proposes practical solutions to resolve issues. 

• Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate. 

Education and Experience 

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc. 

• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems 

• Significant experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation 

Professional Skills and Qualities 

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum 

• Efficiency improvement 

• Configuration management 

• Release readiness 

• Documentation / technical writing 

• Process, data, system engineering 

Personal Skills and Qualities 

• Emotional intelligence and empathy 

• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism 

• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation 

• Active listening and observation 

• Continuous learning 

• Language and communication 

• Creative thinking 

Technical Experience at Intermediate Level 

• Full Stack development
• Java, Spring, Oracle, RHEL Linux
• BDD, TDD, Cucumber
• Jira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)
• REST Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems
• Application architecture
• Containers
• Micro Services
• Source code control
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines
• SQL, PL/SQL, C
• OAuth, Identity Server, 
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

Domain Knowledge 

• Experience in Financial Services preferred 

• Experience in Pensions welcomed 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.