Senior Software Engineer (Modern Tech)

The Technology Strategy team is responsible for shaping technology strategy for the bank - this includes engineering best in class platforms and solving the gnarliest of engineering problems at scale, defining architectural patterns that are employed across the businesses.

This is a new, multi-disciplined group that operates like a start-up within the bank to deliver value at pace and includes product managers, technology SMEs, full stack senior engineers, security engineers, cloud engineers and architects from a deep background in technology and engineering (Kubernetes, open source, Golang, public cloud, the Google stack, Java etc.). This group is part of the Engineering and Architecture Practice (EAP) and is spread globally.

Responsibilities

• Engineering of end-to-end platforms; from concept to delivery
• Developing applications and platforms using Golang, Java, Rust and Nodejs
• Candidate should have extensive public cloud experience and should have delivered hybrid architectures spanning private and public cloud/s
• Be the liaison that drives adoption of the outlined technology strategy in all lines of businesses for ICG
• Developing automation for application and containerization best practices that can be enforced/validated in CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and other platforms
• Prototyping new concepts and open-source technologies at pace for relevance
• Educating the wider community on engineering best practices and platforms developed by the group
• Partnering with central teams to develop IaC modules, CI/CD pipelines with Tekton and other such leading products

What you'll bring

• Deep proficiency in using language stacks such as Golang, Nodejs, and Java
• Candidate should have extensive public cloud experience and should have delivered hybrid architectures spanning private and public cloud/s
• Deep proficiency in Kubernetes and containerisation is a must have
• Familiarity with open-source toolchains, package managers such as Helm, Kustomize is a plus
• Good applied understanding of DevSecOps
• Familiarity with open source and proprietary tech including Kafka, Hashicorp Vault, Terraform, Postgres, MongoDB, Prometheus and other such is expected
• Ability to evangelise the technology strategy vision and solutions developed thereof within a large matrixed organisation
• Strong communication skills with ability to drive ideation and manage conflicts
• Ability to discuss complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences that include peers, product owners, and other stakeholders