Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

SALARY: £72,702-£88,858

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. 

What you’ll be doing

• Writing modular, well-tested full stack applications that stay easy to maintain as our codebase and business scale. Your work has a big impact—it helps ensure our platform stays reliable and manageable, even as we grow.
• Ensuring our software aligns with existing frameworks, patterns, and practices across the broader engineering community, it really enhances consistency and efficiency. Your attention to this not only benefits our team but also helps us integrate more seamlessly with other departments.
• We want you to consistently use the most effective methods in our industry. Sharing your knowledge could help solve complex business problems, especially when there's no clear precedent. It's important to ensure that any solutions you come up with are implemented effectively.
• A focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles has a significant impact on our project's success. This dedication ensures we maintain high standards, creates reliable solutions, and instills confidence in the team.

Why join us?

We’re investing billions in our people, places and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for?

• A proactive approach and ability to independently start projects, working successfully with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
• Deep understanding of Node JS, React Typescript, and responsive web design. Preferably with reusable components as used by React. Along with your knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Strong understanding of source code repositories and change management tools like Git.
• Knowledge of agile development practices and test automation, especially using tools such as Jest, Cucumber and Playwright.
• Strong knowledge of build processes and release automation, including using DevOps Pipelines, Nexus, SonarQube, and AquaSec.
• Experience working with Private/Public Cloud (GCP, Azure, and OpenShift) really stands out.
• Strong grasp of the software development life-cycle, from inception through build to production.
• Trust yourself when sharing your opinions. Your ability to balance conviction with flexibility makes your input powerful. When you speak up, it really helps the team's decision-making and drives us forward.
• Excellent team working and communication skills.

This is a place for you:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.​

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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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 to do the best work of your career? Apply today.