Senior Software Engineer

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

In this role, you will play a key part in driving innovation, ensuring high-quality solutions, and enhancing system performance while collaborating across teams to support the delivery of secure and reliable digital services.

To be successful as a Senior Software Engineer
, you should have experience with;

• Considerable front-end development skills using modern frameworks (React, Angular) and core web technologies, including JavaScript/Type Script, HTML, CSS, and responsive UI design principles.
• Proven back-end development experience with Java and Spring technologies, including Spring Boot, REST APIs, and common security and integration patterns.
• Experience designing and building robust APIs, encompassing RESTful service design, versioning strategies, security (OAuth2/JWT), and performance optimisation.

Some other highly valued skills may include;

• Experience with domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architectures, and event sourcing, with an understanding of how these patterns support scalable, maintainable distributed systems.
• Solid background in microservices architecture, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, and the use of real-time messaging frameworks (e.g. Kafka) to support asynchronous processing and resilience.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including deploying, configuring, and operating applications in cloud-native environments.

You may be assessed on the 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 will be based in Glasgow

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…