Software Engineer

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This position is for a experienced Software Engineer, high-skilled in Cloud technologies, autonomous, flexible, and committed.

The candidate should have a vast experience in developing and building software solutions end to end through the whole software life cycle.

We Architect, Design, Develop, Test and deploy applications and are responsible for the strategy through to implementation, change management and communication.

The difference you'll make.

• Being an important part of the team as a Engineer as we strategically land our Digital programmes of work, working with Data Lakes, Data acquisition and store, Data transformation, Data classification, Data Quality and controls, Data Governance, Data integration, Data anonymisation etc
• Delivering high quality product and services to exceed customers expectation by driving our data approach is at the heart of our transformation through the application of Cloud-Native and Open-source technologies.
• Discussing functional and technical solutions with the different stakeholders in the business, UX designers, architecture, and engineering managers to ensure US are refined and understood at the correct level, whilst developing user stories working solo or pairing with a colleague/ Presenting and communicating at all levels
• Writing the automated testing required to ensure your stories meet the criteria to be considered "Done"
• Ensuring delivered solutions are developed under DevOps practices and latest technology trends, with keeping the solutions delivered running healthy in production minimising incidents and maximising quality of service
• Becoming a role model and mentor to the rest of the Technical team whilst working independently and be self-motivated

What you'll bring.

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Java) and experience of software Engineering, in Application Development using the most recent versions of JavaScript, CSS, Java and Springboot
• Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture running on PaaS infrastructure
• Broad experience of agile software development practices (Unit testing, Test driven development or CI/CD)
• Experience using GitHub, Jira, Jenkins during the development lifecycle as well as using automated tools to evaluate robustness, quality and vulnerabilities of the code developed
• Experience of using agile methodologies, TDD and BDD
• Knowledge of working with distributed infrastructure systems and client-server architectures/ previous experience of supporting Production related incidents until resolution

It would also be nice for you to have.

• Excellent understanding of The AWS services and Well-Architected framework, event-driven architecture
• Adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation)
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Mongo DB)
• Experience in both Front end and Back end technologies and willingness to learn and evolve

What else you need to know.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

By working this way we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we're happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 2 days in an office every week.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review.

If there's anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Everyday Inclusion.
At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we'll reward you.
Opportunities to embrace Agile with us as we transform our business, work in an environment with leading edge technology, attend 'Meet Ups' and be part of internal and external technology communities and work for an organisation that's dedicated to your learning and ongoing development.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans

What to do next.
If this sounds like a role you're interested in, then please apply.

If there's anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it's a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we're available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.