Full Stack Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Full Stack Engineer, At Barclays, our vision is clear – To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

To be successful as a Full Stack Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Server-side Development:
  Ample Python programming skills with experience building APIs, microservices architecture, anddata processing pipelines. Familiarity with Python frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI for creating robust backend services.
• Cloud Technologies:
  Experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), understanding of infrastructure as code, containerisation (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Full Stack Performance and monitoring:
  Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the entire application stack, ensuring efficient database queries and API responses on the backend. Understand and implement necessary tools for monitoring and observing systems end-to-end.
• Dev Ops & CI/CD:
  Understanding of build pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes for full stack applications. Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.

• Frontend Development:
  Understanding of JavaScript fundamentals, ES6+, closures, promises, async/await, and functional programming concepts.
• AI & Machine Learning:
  Familiarity working with the latest AI technologies:
  Gen AI chatbots and AI agents, MCP. Testing & Quality Assurance:
  Experience with testing methodologies and tools across the stack (pytest, unittest for Python) and ability to implement comprehensive test coverage.

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.

The location of your role is Glasgow/Knutsford.

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

• 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.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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…