AVP, Back End Engineer

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 146,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Life insurance

Paid time off

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an AVP, Back End Engineer in Whippany, NJ to design, develop, and improve software for hybrid environments. You will work on server‑side logic, API development with REST/GraphQL, and containerization with Docker, contributing to scalable, resilient systems across private and public clouds.

The role emphasizes secure coding, unit tests, and collaboration with product teams. You will lead and coach teams as an AVP or work as individual contributor depending on assignment,

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions using industry‑standard languages, frameworks and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of technology trends and contribute to the organization’s technology communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices and implement effective unit testing.

Skills

Back end development

Microservices

REST/GraphQL

Java

Spring Boot

Python

C#

C++

Node.js

Go

Django

.NET

SQL/NoSQL databases

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Oracle

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

Job description

What will you be doing? Barclays Services LLC seeks AVP, Back End Engineer (multiple positions) in Whippany, NJ.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with Relational Databases including Postgres/Oracle, NoSql databases, or MongoDB/DynamoDB.
• Dive into server‑side application logic and working on integration with front‑end.
• Design, develop, and test resilient and scalable solutions for any of the hybrid environments, such as Private cloud – Open Shift, Public cloud – AWS, Azure.
• Build micro services and APIs using REST/GraphQL.
• Work with a technology stack which can include any of these: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Django, C#, C++, .Net, Nodejs, Go.
• Use test‑driven development to write top quality and well‑tested code by implementing automated tests.
• Use containerization technologies including Docker.

Minimum Salary: $146,000.00 per year

Maximum Salary: $175,000.00 per year

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub‑function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.