Address
SalaryGeneral information
Job Title
Senior Software Engineer - (API)
Ref #
8176
Location
Edinburgh
Department
Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
24-11-2023
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Senior Software Engineer - API
Permanent
Edinburgh/Newcastle/Glasgow
Flexible hybrid working available - to be considered for this position you must be within commutable distance to either office, as you will be required to attend the office.
Salary £50,240 - £55,000 & Benefits
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring your expertise to help us design, build, test, support and deliver APIs and services on Apigee Edge and Tibco BusinessWorks.
- This role will be focused on creating REST and SOAP services and supporting the platforms which host them.
- You will lead feature builds and technical proofs of concepts, help advise on industry best practices, leveraging your experience to assist in design and discovery phases and ultimately enhance our engineering team.
- Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
- Senior Engineers are the lynchpin of our teams, working closely with Junior Engineers and Product Owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our Lead and Principal Engineers on our longer-term technology goals.
What you’ll bring
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.
Essential criteria – the technical ‘must have’s’
- Demonstrable experience developing REST and SOAP services.
- A solid background in core programming languages such as JavaScript and/or Java on cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
- In-depth knowledge of building integrations between components and services.
- Experience troubleshooting issues and supporting services within a production environment.
- Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts.
Desirable – the ‘good to have’ skills
- Exposure to either APIs on Apigee Edge or Tibco BusinessWorks
- Working knowledge of AWS services
- Understanding of containerisation technologies
- Experience of coaching junior Software Engineers
- Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies
- A keen desire to get involved. Our teams perform best when we collaborate in the design and support of our API platforms.
- We expect our Senior Engineers to think for themselves and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices.
- Being a self-starter who is looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
What’s in it for you:
- Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, your gateway to exclusive advantages. Enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday, spanning across a 4-day window for shopping at Tesco stores and online.
- As an added perk, share the goodness with a family member or friend through a secondary card.
- Enhance your mental and physical wellbeing with our comprehensive benefits package, encompassing the Virtual GP Service. This invaluable resource grants you and your family free access to round-the-clock doctor's appointments 365 days a year. Additionally, explore our cycle-to-work scheme, promoting a healthier lifestyle and environmentally friendly commuting options.
- Indulge in a generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks, including Bank Holidays. Additionally, you can seize the chance to acquire extra days through our optional purchase scheme.
- Embrace our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
- Unlock fantastic offers and discounts on well-known brands, helping you save on your everyday expenses.
- Prepare for your retirement with our robust savings plan, featuring a pension scheme that offers a 1:1 match on contributions, up to 7.5%.
- Receive life assurance coverage equivalent to up to five times your contractual salary as a member of our pension scheme.” #LI-KP1
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Why Tesco Bank?
We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
