Software Engineer-JAVA Full stack Developer

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Software Engineer-JAVA Full stack Developer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. You will be involved in design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

To be a successful Software Engineer-JAVA Full stack Developer, you should have experience with:

• Development, and delivery of high quality AEM solutions using industry aligned technologies including AEM Sites, Adobe Core Components, OSGi, Sling, JCR, Java (8–21), HTL, client side frameworks, and cloud native patterns. Ensure code is scalable, maintainable, secure, and optimized for performance.

• Implement complex AEM capabilities such as multisite management (MSM), language copy, live copy customization, editable templates, and experience fragments.

• Technical leadership across the full AEM development lifecycle, including estimations, development, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, LTS upgrades, and production support across Author and Publish environments.

• Cross functional collaboration with product owners, architects, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams to define requirements, and ensure seamless integration aligned with business and platform objectives.

• Lead and mentor development teams, promoting engineering best practices, reusable components, AEM patterns, performance optimization, and a strong quality first mindset.

• Code quality and governance ownership, enforcing standards through peer reviews, static analysis, secure coding practices, and adherence to enterprise AEM development and release guidelines.

• Stay informed of AEM platform evolution, including LTS releases, service packs, Java upgrades, Cloud Manager changes, deprecations, and Adobe recommended best practices. Contribute to internal communities and knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Security and compliance responsibility, ensuring secure handling of content and data using XSS protection, Anti Samy, Granite security framework, ACLs, service users, and secret management.

• Testing and reliability, implementing effective unit, integration, and automated testing strategies using JUnit 5, Mockito, AEM Mocks, Sling Testing Tools, and UI/functional automation.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Bangalore.