Senior Software Engineer

Barclays; United States; On-site; USD 189,592 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Services Corp. is seeking Senior Software Engineer in Whippany, NJ to design, develop and improve software for business and technology capabilities. You will build reusable components, drive end-to-end delivery, and ensure secure, auditable systems aligned with regulatory requirements.

You will work with cross-functional teams, mentor juniors, participate in code reviews, and contribute to a culture of technical excellence while deploying scalable services on AWS.

Qualifications

• Experience designing financial software systems and data models.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices.
• Experience with unit testing and secure coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Build reusable components for real-time data integration across trade processing.
• Drive end-to-end project delivery, guide a small team, and conduct code reviews.
• Extend system architecture for regulatory compliance and audit trails.
• Identify and escalate risks to project management to mitigate impact.
• Design and propose modules to Tech Forums with defined timelines.
• Leverage MongoDB and SQL for data management and reporting.

Skills

Java

Python

C#

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

MongoDB

SQL

AWS

Tools

MongoDB

SQL

AWS

REST

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.

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.

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Senior Software Engineer in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Build re-usable components using well structured, high quality and performing code for real-time integration of reference data (counterparty, client, account, and book) into trade processing, ensuring seamless data flow across systems.

• Drive end-to-end project delivery - managing timelines, guiding a small team through iterative development cycles, conducting thorough code reviews, and mentoring junior developers

• Understand Financial domain-based System design and is able to extend system architecture and Automate business process ensuring that these systems support stringent regulatory requirements and audit trails

• Identifies and escalates issues and risks in a timely manner to the development/project manager so that project risk can be mitigated with minimal impact

• Design and propose module to Tech Forums with well-defined timelines

• Leverage MongoDB and SQL databases to manage unstructured trade data and generate reports for regulatory compliance.

• Design modular services and RESTful APIs to support trade lifecycle events, including data enrichment and reconciliation of reference data. Design and propose module to Tech Forums with well-defined timelines

• Deploy and scale services on AWS (EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch) to ensure availability and monitoring of reference data systems in a cloud environment.

• Implement automated deployment pipelines and maintain high-availability systems to support mission-critical financial operations.

Minimum Salary: $189,592 per year

Maximum Salary: $195,000 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.