Lead Software Engineer

Lloyd's; Chester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Chester is seeking a skilled software engineer to join their Cards Engineering Team. This role involves crafting software for their Internet Banking system, where you'll lead a team and be responsible for delivering resilient, testable systems. Ideal candidates have strong expertise in Java, React, and an understanding of cloud-native applications. The organization offers competitive benefits including up to 15% pension contribution and 30 days annual leave.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience working with at least two of preferred development languages.
• Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle.
• Provide clear technical direction and lead a feature team.
• Work with the wider product and engineering group to deliver solutions.
• Champion new tooling and solutions design.
• Participate in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies using JIRA.

Skills

Java 17+

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

JIRA

CI/CD

Docker

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Tools

Jest

Enzyme

React Testing Library

Pact

Cypress

Playwright

Github

Harness

Jenkins

ELK

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

As part of the Cards Engineering Team, you'll create software that powers our Internet Banking system, enabling customers to apply for credit cards, handle balance transfers, add cardholders, and increase credit limits.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, build and deliver maintainable, testable, observable and resilient software systems.
• Provide clear technical direction and take the lead. Line manage and coach a feature team with responsibility for up to 10 engineers.
• Work closely with your team and the wider product and engineering group to build effective working relationships and deliver product-led solutions.
• Define and champion new tooling, principles, practices and patterns. Encourage and lead comprehensive solution design.
• Participate in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies and use tools like JIRA.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with at least two of the following languages and frameworks: Java 17+, React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Spring Boot and relational databases.
• Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience of test first development and unit testing with modern testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, Pact, Cypress and Playwright.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and build pipelines, using tools such as Github, Harness, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, Grafana and Dynatrace. Take ownership and responsibility for the lifespan of the things you contribute to. A “you build it, you run it” attitude.
• Experience in managing engineers to deliver and helping them learn and grow.
• Proficiency designing, building and operating containerised cloud native applications in production. Experience with GCP, Kubernetes and Terraform highly desirable.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.