JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office
Pay Range: £70,929.00 - £85,000
About this opportunity
Are you passionate about full stack development and have a knack for solving complex problems? This is your chance to join our dynamic team and make a significant impact. As a Band E Software Engineer, you will be working on exciting projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.
You will be part of a collaborative team that values innovation and continuous improvement. Your role will involve developing and maintaining applications, implementing new features, and ensuring the highest level of performance and user experience. You will also have the opportunity to learn from peers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
What you'll do…
As Tech Lead, you’ll set the technical direction for a front‑end‑leaning squad, championing LBG standards (TypeScript/React on supported Node LTS) to deliver performant, accessible experiences. You’ll break down complex problems, mentor engineers, uphold high quality with automated testing (Jest/Playwright/MSW) and robust CI/CD (e.g., Harness), and collaborate closely with Product, QE, DevOps and back‑end colleagues.
You’ll embed resilience, security and operability from the start, own production health when needed, and continuously improve our engineering practices and documentation to help the team ship value safely and often.
What you’ll need…..
- Strong knowledge and working experience of Engineering tools including, React, Angular, TypeScript and Node
- Back-End experience with Java, SpringBoot will help you stand out in this role
- Oracle and PL/SQL Database know-how
- Testing Frameworks – JEST, PlayWright would be highly sought after for this team and this role
- Comfortable with working around Automation and bringing that experience to this role
- Confident leading technical teams, mentoring others in the team and making key technical decisions
It would be great if you also had experience in…
- Any experience with GCP would be a benefit for this role
- Exposure to Container technologies like Kubernetes, Docker
- Full-Stack experience would be a bonus
About Working for us……
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- 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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
