Engineer - Performance Engineer

As a Performance engineer within Nationwide’s Engineering Centre of Excellence you will join a cohesive team of colleagues working in an agile environment, we focus on delivering a variety of IT middleware solutions for our members. You will play a central role in making sure our software deployments are fit for purpose and balancing all areas of performance.

This role is within our Digital team who are responsible for connecting our customers to our great range of Nationwide customer facing products. Due to new demand we are expanding our team of talented Performance Engineers to help with the growth of our service estate, delivering new and established code onto our cutting-edge technology platforms.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at one of our offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

This role can be based out of one of many Nationwide Hubs or core offices.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

We are seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to join the team that will support our customer facing services to ensure a highly level of performance and resilience, planning for now and into the future.

You will use your extensive Performance Engineering knowledge plus your experience of micro service technologies and observability skills to analyse and make recommendations, balancing the essentials of performance and capacity to ensure we support our customers.

We’ll need you to work across other areas of the business to apprise them of elements of performance that they need to be aware of and assist them in their decision-making processes.

You will be central in helping to build out and lead in the development of the capability of the team. As an experienced industry professional you will work with Nationwide’s Leadership team and our Partner resources to balance our members needs.

About you

We are looking for candidates with:

• Experience of using GIT, Artifactory or other Source control repositories.
• Experience of assessing performance.
• A proven track record and industry experience.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communications skills and experience of working with key stakeholders.
• Experience of test approaches.
• Experience of observability, configuration, and fault resolution.
• An agile mindset and flexible approach to work.

And the ability to:

• Multi-task and manage/support work across multiple work-streams.
• Coach and mentor junior members of the team
• Keen interest in upcoming technologies and approaches
• Provide clear guidance to junior colleagues and other technical stakeholders in a timely and informative manner

It will be advantageous to have:

• Previous experience of Cloud technologies and on-premise infrastructure
• A sound working knowledge and capability of Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience of Microservice architectures.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

 There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.  

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.  

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.  

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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