Senior Software Engineer

You will be working as a Senior Software Engineer in the product team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements and functionality using Agile methodologies, ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout. You 9ll work with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software and will participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security. Working with the support team, you 9ll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. You will also take responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system. You must be able to work across multiple facets of projects and be able to juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time. You will engage directly with IT management, development teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building and maintaining application software to further our product delivery objectives. As a growing team with a broad remit, this role offers excellent exposure to business users and management where you will be able to clearly see the impact of the work you and the team are doing.
• Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions.
• Assist in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing
• Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities
• Be a strong voice in all team ceremonies, including planning, estimation and backlog refinement.
• Provide a technical view point in discussions on resource assignment
• Working with the support team to deployment and monitor services in production.
• Taking responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system
• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.
• Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes
• Strict adherence to Shawbrook technical standards

Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience of experience designing and building complex software end-to-end systems which have been efficiently delivered to production
• Broad experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems.
• Ability to work independently
• Expert in at least one language (C#, Python, Javascript, Pega or Salesforce) including object-oriented design
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills

Key attributes

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Stakeholder management skills, and ability to communicate with all levels from peers through to managers.
• Growth mindset