Senior Software Engineer - Services (API's)
Location
Hybrid role with base location as either Edinburgh, Manchester, Widnes, Coventry, Milton Keynes or London
In a nutshell
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help drive the development of applications and tools across production and non-production environments, including but not limited to the modernisation of existing applications. You will build and maintain a suite of high performant and robust API's, that provides outstanding user experience for our customers.
You will be working in accordance with Sainsbury’s Bank and AFS development methodologies and leveraging industry best practices, tools, and infrastructure to deliver high quality end products whilst within an agile environment.
What you need to do
- Works on resolving complex areas of improvement that may impact multiple areas. Has ownership of both internal and external relationships. May be required to be a working manager/team lead.
- Implements multiple critical components of larger software projects.
- Serves as the ultimate problem solver and final stop for troubleshooting issues.
- Defines work and advises on tasks independently.
- Drives improvements in community content, health, and moderated discussion.
- Optionally responsible for the technical mentorship and guidance of a team.
- Challenges stakeholders and project scope where needed.
- Clarifies and communicates stakeholder objectives.
- Defines and elaborates on tasks, weighs pros/cons, coordinates with stakeholders for important components.
- Receives direction in the form of objectives.
Why we are looking for people like you
- To challenge and innovate our stack, our culture, and our ways of working.
- To help us develop new product features and improve existing ones across a variety of projects.
- To collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver an amazing product experience for our customers.
- To contribute new ideas for developing features and refactoring areas of code.
- To share and celebrate what you’ve learned by talking in our Digital Huddle.
- To further develop and flex your mentoring and leadership skills.
What you need to know and show
- Strong experience of back-end service development using TypeScript & NodeJS Lambdas
- Solid experience of NPM build system
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Understands the value in different ways of working and challenges inefficiencies.
- Experience of leading and mentoring more junior engineers
- Experience of GIT & CI/CD
- Has guided and influenced stakeholders.
- Challenges and introduces knowledge base content and best practice.
Inquisitive - Taking an active interest in what’s going on in the business.
Proactive - Taking action and making decisions based on the greatest positive impact.
Community Contributor - Volunteering time, abilities, and skills to benefit others.
Dissentient - Challenging the status quo, encouraging innovation and disruption!
Our benefits
In addition to the all-important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So we want to shout out some of our other great benefits…
- We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance.
- Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table.
- Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat store discount card.
- Cycle to work scheme and great coffee and cake!
A little about us & our culture
We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.
We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.
It’s important that our colleagues reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Our inclusive recruitment policy means we’re committed to training and developing all our colleagues, treating everyone fairly and equally when they come and work with us.
As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.
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