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This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.
Join us as a Software Engineer
This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
We’ll look to you to engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career as you develop the discipline of software engineering across the business
What you’ll do
In your new role, you’ll design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking. You’ll be working within a feature team and using extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
Additionally, you’ll be collaborating with principal engineers and domain architects to understand the wider platform, domain and enterprise agendas and support the realisation of these. And, you’ll make sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management.
You’ll also be:
Producing software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
Working in permanent teams that are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
The skills you’ll need
You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You’ll bring up to five years’ IT experience and you’ll have some experience in DevOps or Agile led projects.
We’ll also look for you to have development experience with COBOL and DB2, with a minimum of two years’ experience on real development projects. It would also be ideal if you have Webservices knowledge.
You’ll also need:
Proficiency in JAVA, JSP, JSF, JQuery, JavaScript, Python
Experience in CICD tools usage like Bitbucket, Teamcity, Stash, and CICD practices on linux or unix systems and scripts and AutoSys or equivalent batch scheduling
Good knowledge of design concepts
Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
Coding experience in multiple programming languages
Proficiency in Mainframe, including CICS, DB2, Webservices, COBOL, WSDL, SOAP, JCL and VSAM
Experience in CI/CD tools and good knowledge of design concepts
A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance