Senior Full Stack Developer

Barclays Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Capital in London is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade applications. You will work with Java, Spring, ReactJS, and modern open-source tech to deliver responsive UIs and secure microservices.

Join a collaborative engineering culture using CI/CD, DevOps practices, and observability tools to ensure high performance, reliability, and security across cloud-native systems.

Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise-grade web applications.
• Strong grasp of backend/frontend integration and security.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable software systems.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define requirements.
• Lead code reviews and promote best practices in quality and security.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

ReactJS

Angular

RESTful APIs

OAuth2

JWT

CI/CD

DevOps

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Job Description

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.

Vice President Expectations

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 escalate 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 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.

Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.

Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.

Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.

Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.

Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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.

Join us as a Senior Full Stack Developer, where you'll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade applications using Java, Spring Framework, ReactJS and modern open-source technologies. You'll drive the development of highly responsive user interfaces with Angular, React while delivering cloud-native secure, resilient micro services using Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, OAuth2, and JWT. You'll also benefit from working within a collaborative engineering environment, leveraging CI/CD and DevOps best practices with tools like GitLab or Jenkins, alongside observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to ensure high performance and reliability.

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