Visual Basic (VB)- Senior Software Engineer

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Company Description

Shawbrook is a specialist bank driven by a purpose to power up ingenuity to create opportunity, every single day.

We offer a diverse range of savings and loan products. From personal and business savings accounts and loans for weddings and new cars, to complex financial credit facilities for businesses requiring significant investment and mortgages for landlords with multiple properties - no two customers are ever the same.

We give our customers the best-of-both worlds; uniquely combining strong digital capabilities with human expertise and ingenuity to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to the challenge of a complex case or unconventional circumstances, and we love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we know we can always find the right solution for our customers.

If you're willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you're our kind of person

Work with us because you:

• Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world
• Relish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative, and hardworking culture
• Enjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen
• Want to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups
• Care about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares too
• Want to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

Job Description

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 our real estate origination systems, a key business area for the bank. 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 fundamentally change the way we build and maintain systems at Shawbrook.

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...

• Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building and maintaining application software support key systems within the bank. You will be working to help transition one of our key systems from legacy technologies to a modern microservices based system.

• Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions.
• Be a strong voice in all team ceremonies, including planning, estimation and backlog refinement.
• Provide a technical viewpoint in discussions on resource assignment.

• Participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions. Taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security.

• Working with the support team to deploy and monitor services in production.

• Taking responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system

• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.

• Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes

• Strict adherence to Shawbrook technical standards

Qualifications

What you'll need...

• Proven hands-on experience (typically 4+ years) of experience designing and building complex software end-to-end systems which have been efficiently delivered to production
• Broad experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems.
• Ability to work independently
• Expert in VB6.
• .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. (Not essential)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• 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 in banking will be useful

Chance to gain

• Cloud Experience (Azure)- If you don't have this you can expect to learn it during your time at Shawbrook.

Additional Information

Your 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 employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (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 health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your 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 year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your 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 success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done