Software Engineer - Enterprise Technology

A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing a fintech culture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners. Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and corporate clients. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy.

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 organisation’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.

• Extensive experience building complex, scalable systems. You’ve seen things break at scale, and worked to resolve issues in a sustainable way.
• Detailed command of Cloud, Kubernetes, and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
• A polyglot mindset – expertise of at least two languages (e.g., Rust, Go, Kotlin) and a “right tool for the job” philosophy.
• Ability to bring both technical and non‑technical stakeholders on the journey, explaining complex technical trade‑offs to those who might not know what a “service mesh” is.
• Product thinking – you treat the platform as a product, with fellow engineers as your customers.
• Good experience of collaboration with various stakeholders such as Product Managers.

The successful candidate will be based in London
. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office‑based presence expected.

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.