Staff Software Engineer

• You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential

• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

• Together we will innovate the future of banking with state-of-the-art AI Powered Engineering solutions

Do work that matters 

Retail Technology Services (RBS) provides the underpinning technology for simple, convenient and affordable banking and general insurance products and services to personal and private bank customers. We are helping customers manage their everyday banking needs, buy a home, protect their assets or invest for the future.

See yourself in our team

Our Core Banking Product Crew within Retail Technology is responsible for leading our retail end-to-end digital-first customer experience strategy, driving innovation, improving customer engagement and creating new business opportunities through partnerships, ventures and the Group’s digital ecosystem.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop and deliver the Software Engineering vision for our Core Banking Product Crew in Retail Technology. This high availability, modernised platform powers many critical elements of the customer experience for our products.

We’re interested in hearing from people who can

• Develop and deploy high quality software solutions, with comprehensive test coverage without supervision

• Analyse business objectives and identify functional and non-functional requirements

• Design and implement technical solutions for functional and non-functional requirements

• Provide accurate estimates for the development effort for new features

• Continuously improve and improvise to find the best solutions for business

• Provide mentoring and technical assistance to other members of the team

• Work well with different team members whilst practicing knowledge sharing

• Apply and promote industry best patterns and practices with focus on test automation

• Take ownership of initiatives and assets and follow up to provide highest quality of customer service

• Contribute to the strategic engineering goals within own team / platform.

Technical skills

You might not tick every box, every time, but you bring depth in several of these areas and a willingness to learn the rest:

• Strong proficiency in OOP languages such as Java, C#, C++, or Python, with a deep understanding of object-oriented design patterns, as well as core architectural principles. 

• Strong experience with enterprise development, including frameworks like Spring Framework and Spring Boot, and the ability to build, configure, and extend flexible platforms that support modular features, rules-driven behaviour, and environment- or customer-specific configuration.

• Cloud: AWS Experience

• Test Automation: Unit/Integration/Acceptance testing experience with Selenium

• Frontend Technologies: HTML5, CSS and Javascript. Along with one of the JS frameworks - either Angular or React Programming Languages: C# with good knowledge of OOPS concepts and design patterns.

• CI/CD: Any Git tool for source control

• Build tools like TeamCity or Jenkins and experience with deployment tooling like Octopus or similar

• Databases: Either of the relational databases including MSSQL / Oracle. Any No-SQL database like MongoDB is a bonus

• .NET Core API development, node.js, along with Kafka/messaging tool is a plus

Working with us

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you. 

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. 

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us. 

If this sounds like you, apply now!