Senior Back End Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Shawbrook Bank

Description

The OpportunityShawbrook provides finance to a wide range of customer segments that value the premium experience, flexibility and certainly we deliver.

We are a purpose-led organisation, with a focus on delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders.

We have a diversified offering, with our innovative lending propositions tailored to meet specific customer needs in carefully selected markets across SME, Real Estate and Personal.

Our products range from complex structured credit facilities for growth-focused businesses to mortgages for professional landlords and property investors, as well as simple loans for consumers delivered digitally.

We fuel our lending through customer deposits, which we attract by delivering a premium experience, choice and consistently great value to smart savers.

The business model we have created is unique and difficult to replicate, with our 'best of both' approach combining deep human expertise with advanced digital, tech and data capabilities.

This combination not only allows us to deliver excellent customer experiences, but to do so efficiently and at scale.

We are proud of our innovative and agile culture, which drives consistently high employee engagement scores and makes Shawbrook an attractive destination for the best talent.

If you're willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you're our kind of personWork with us because you:
Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern worldRelish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative, and hardworking cultureEnjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happenWant to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groupsCare about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares tooWant to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

The Role:

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer in our CPO team, driving innovation in our business-critical engineering projects at Shawbrook, the forefront of fintech banking.

You will be working on exciting greenfield initiatives to advance existing systems, with an emphasis on integrating diverse systems in our Enterprise area.

This role offers a chance for a skilled engineer to deepen their domain expertise in banking and collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers, using Agile methodologies to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements, and functionality.

You'll be an advocate for best in class engineering standards and maintain a strong focus on product delivery, you'll have the chance to make your mark right away as we undergo pivotal, impactful work with truly diverse opportunities to support your development.

Responsibilities:

What you'll do...Work as part of an Agile product team to further our product delivery objectives, creating simple, clean and well documented code.

Work with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software.

Participate in backlog refinement sessions to understand business requirements and take responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solutionUtilise engineering best practices and design principles, bearing in mind non-functional requirements around performance and security.

Work with the support team to assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production.

Document details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation systemThe PersonWhat you'll need....NET 5/6 /.NET core- You will use .NET and C# to build out the back end that feeds through to the front-end presentation layers.

Cloud Experience (ideally Azure)- You will need a solid understanding of cloud fundamentals for the wider migration to the cloud as part of our technical transformation.

SQL- You will need experience with data, both front and back end, to run queries, pull data back, build new tables, index tables.

Microservices- You will use microservice technology to build our systems using modern design to drive scalability and efficiency.

Engineering best practice- You will need familiarity with concepts such as DTO / TDD / Unit Testing and SOLID principals to drive high quality coding practices.

Any experience of working with Salesforce integrations in the past would also be beneficial.

RewardYour Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind.

These include:

Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employmentFree access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health appFree access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopauseEAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and healthCycle to work schemeDiscounts on gym membershipContributory pension scheme & death in serviceYour Lifestyle - It's important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life.

We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you're enjoying your leisure time.

Minimum of 27 days holiday per yearOption to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday schemeDiscounts on gym membership nationwideAccess to discounts on a range of high street and online brandsCommunity support and charitable givingYour Contribution - We're focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our successProudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done