JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office
Pay Range: £47,790 - £53,100
About this opportunity
We're looking to recruit a Software Engineer to work within the International & CHAPS Lab in Edinburgh. Specifically, to support our new industry-leading International Payments Platform (IPP). Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP). This product is being used to deliver key revenue streams as well as enable mandatory compliance.
What follows is what you might find our Software Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.
If you are looking for a role where you will spend the majority of your time working on key application Integrations and Deployment and a smaller percentage of your time hands-on coding then this could be the role for you.
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 need…..
You'll be a Software Engineer preferably with previous knowledge of integrating, introducing, and supporting 3rd Party packages, including bespoke solution configuration and rules-based engineering into a Payments production environment.
- Adept solutions designer and problem solver.
- Technical Proficiency –
- Familiarity with Linux applications
- Programming language: Knowledge of Java, Python, Unix Shell scripting.
- OS: Unix
- DataBase: Oracle DB
- DevOps and Code Management: GIT, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Tools: SQL Developer, UCD, MQ, Kafka.
- Monitoring Tools : TWS, Tivoli, Splunk and Dynatrace.
- You’ll have all-around knowledge of the software development lifecycle, ideally within a modern Agile engineering function.
It would be great if you also had experience in…
- Previous experience of working with technical components of Finastra GPP product.
- Knowledge of Nodejs, Elastic search.
- Websphere based application knowledge.
- Scripting or Automation – Basic knowledge of Bash or Python to automate routine tasks.
- Cloud support knowledge – Understanding of cloud environments like OCP, GCP, Azure, AWS as well as Private Cloud solutions.
- Observability – Familiarity with monitoring tools to diagnose issues and ensure system performance and reliability.
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
- 28 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.
