Join us as a Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer

You’ll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions

Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

You’ll apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines. We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output.

You’ll also:

Design and develop reusable libraries and application programming interfaces for use across the bank

Design and develop software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments

Support the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams

Deliver software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services

Write unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm. You should also have development experience in a programming language, experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

This role will be involved in developing RBS International’s market leading internet banking portal. To maintain and grow the platform, you’ll need to demonstrate a solid understanding in Java, React JavaScript, Spring Framework, Kotlin to support Android mobile functions along with SQL and Database architecture such as DB2 and Postgres. Exposure to and knowledge of AWS would be advantageous.

You’ll also need:

Experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools

Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies

Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales

An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions

The ability to understand and support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams