Software Engineer

End date
Wednesday 01 May 2024

Salary range
£45,954 - £51,060

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Job description

Software Engineer

Salary: £45,954 to £51,060

Location: Manchester

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: At least 2 days per week in our Manchester office.

About this Opportunity

This role sits within our Customer Service Transformation Lab, a co-located team within the Colleague Channels Platform. As a Software Engineer within this Lab you’ll work together with a cross functional team on key initiatives, to deliver value at pace by designing services colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging to use, transforming their experience.

Here’s where you’ll make a difference

• You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and Senior Engineers to produce high quality, well tested and robust code.
• You’ll support the maintenance and improvement of existing software as well as the development of API’s and Microservices.
• You’ll have the opportunity to develop your technical knowledge and understanding as well as practice and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for the role.
• This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!

What you’ll need

• Proven experience as an Engineer in Software Development.
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready and compliant solutions.
• Essential Languages: Java, Spring Boot or similar frameworks
• Desirable Languages: ReactJS or knowledge of JavaScript, Nodejs, TypeScript
• Experience of Kubernetes and container management
• Docker
• Building RESTful services or Web UI
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and modern software development practices
• Experience of working as part of an agile team using agile practices and tooling such as Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure that we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background identity or culture.

We were one of the first organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes. Just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days holiday with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more ]]>