Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
Location: Newport or Cardiff
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Newport or Cardiff Office.

About us…  

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…  

About this opportunity

As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring your deep technical expertise to the table, driving technical development and delivery in key areas.  You’ll focus to solving complex challenges with your specialised knowledge taking ownership of critical tech delivery within your team.   

In this role, you’ll lead way in shaping the direction of our software solutions, using your expertise to make impactful decisions and drive success.  You’ll collaborate closely with the team and product owner to ensure delivery excellence.  If you’re someone who thrives on delivering high-quality solutions and making real impact with your technical know-how, we’d love to hear from you! 

The role sits within the Transport Platform, which is a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer focused solutions to facilitate access to vehicles, maintenance, and related services including Digital account management. We are committed to supporting the Group and wider UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda. 

 What you’ll do

You should feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through: 

• Leading on feature development within the team across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over engineering. 

• Defining complete software solutions that are considered, pragmatic and clear; knowing when it's appropriate to make trade-offs against the target architecture. 

• Engineering software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt. Adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release. 

• Participating in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, to manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes.  

• Enabling the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices. 

• Partnering with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality and safety. 

• Promoting active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps. 

• Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers with confidence, and by expanding your owns skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions.  

What you’ll need

To be considered for and successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate the below: 

• Exceptional proficiency in a modern object orientated language preferably <JavaScript or Java>. 

• Deep understanding of the <server-side or client-side> application stack both breadth and depth in building <APIs or Web Applications>, using <Node.js, SpringBoot or React.js> frameworks and applying <SOLID, RESTful principles or package management> with database interactions (Structured and unstructured). 

• Experience in designing, developing and testing complex systems in and agile context (utilising orchestration automate), with strong architectural thinking and with an ability to break down ambiguous problems. Showing a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. 

• Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS. 

• Experience in acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adoption of new ways of working or development of their technical capabilities. 

• Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitments.  

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!