About the role

  • Lead Software Engineer working with diverse tools to develop customer-centric banking applications. Contributing to software development lifecycle in a hybrid working environment from Chester or Manchester.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, build and deliver maintainable, testable, observable and resilient software systems.
  • Provide clear technical direction and take the lead.
  • Line manage and coach a feature team with responsibility for up to 10 engineers.
  • Work closely with your team and the wider product and engineering group to build effective working relationships and deliver product-led solutions.
  • Define and champion new tooling, principles, practices and patterns.
  • Encourage and lead comprehensive solution design.
  • Working in agile environments, participating in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, and using tools like JIRA

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with at least two of the following languages and frameworks (Java 17+, React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Spring Boot and relational databases)
  • Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.
  • Strong experience of test first development and unit testing with modern testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, Pact, Cypress and Playwright.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and build pipelines, using tools such as Github, Harness, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, Grafana and Dynatrace.
  • Take ownership and responsibility for the lifespan of the things you contribute to.
  • A “you build it, you run it” attitude.
  • Experience in managing engineers to deliver and helping them learn and grow.

Benefits

  • 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

Job title

Lead Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£92,701 - £169,043 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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