Software Engineer | S2 | Payments & Open Banking Technology | Milton Keynes

Santander USA; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent banking institution in Milton Keynes is looking for a Software Engineer to join their Payments and Open Banking team. This role involves delivering high-quality products, driving transformation using cloud-native technologies, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Candidates should have strong experience with AWS and Java, as well as familiarity with agile methodologies. The position offers a hybrid working model with strong emphasis on employee wellbeing and development.

Benefits

£500 annual cash allowance for benefits

Discretionary performance-related bonus

8% contribution to pension

27 days holiday, increasing to 28 after 5 years

Free digital health services access

Death-in-service benefit

Employee discount platform

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in software development with AWS and Java.
• Experience with cloud-native and open-source technologies.
• Understanding agile methodologies, TDD, and BDD.

Responsibilities

• Drive Payments and Open Banking projects.
• Deliver high-quality products to exceed expectations.
• Ensure solutions are running healthily in production.

Skills

Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Java 11+)

Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture

Agile software development practices

Experience using GitHub, Jira, Jenkins

Supporting Production related incidents

Tools

SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora)

NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Mongo DB)

Job description

Software Engineer | S2 | Payments & Open Banking Technology | Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working ? We want to talk to you!

Join our community.

An excellent opportunity is available to join our the RBB Core Payments & Open Banking team as a Software Engineer.

This is a very exciting time for the Payments IT Team as we transform how we operate within the Bank and digitally transform our technical architecture to meet evolving customer expectations and industry changes across Payments and Open Banking.We service all our internal and external customer’s Payments needs in a secure, reliable and innovative manner.

You will help shape our organisation and develop our exceptional people to meet the constantly changing environment that we operate in as we drive radical transformation and simplification across our systems. If you share our passion for technology and payments, come join us and deliver.

The difference you’ll make:

• Being an important part of the team as an Engineer as we strategically land our Payments and Open Banking programmes of work

• Delivering high quality product and services to exceed customers expectation

• Driving our data approach is at the heart of our transformation through the application of Cloud-Native and Open-source technologies

• Discussing functional and technical solutions with the different stakeholders in the business, UX designers, architecture, and engineering managers to ensure US are refined and understood at the correct level

• Keeping the solutions delivered running healthy in production minimising incidents and maximising quality of service

• Becoming a role model and mentor to the rest of the Technical team

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Java 11+)

• Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture running on PaaS infrastructure

• Broad experience of agile software development practices (Unit testing, Test driven development or CI/CD)

• Experience using GitHub, Jira, Jenkins during the development lifecycle as well as using automated tools to evaluate robustness, quality and vulnerabilities of the code developed

• Experience of using agile methodologies, TDD and BDD

• You have previous experience of supporting Production related incidents until resolution

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Excellent understanding of The AWS services and Well-Architected framework, event-driven architecture

• Adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation)

• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Mongo DB)

• Exposure to DevOps eco-system and automation tools to follow Continuous Integration lifecycle

What else you need to know:

• This role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.

• We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

• If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

• We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

• If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process:

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–

1st Stage – Technical Interview – this will a 30min technical interview with one of the team

2nd Stage – A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you:

As well asasalary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• £500annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platformincluding retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more

• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates.Including:medical insurance, dental insurance, and health assessments

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing inour shareplans

• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships

• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at [e-mail].