Full Stack Developer

Job Title : Full Stack Developer
Location: Chennai

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working 

Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction:

As a member of the Platform Services team, you will be dedicated to the engineering of user friendly solutions that facilitate seamless consumption of our GTIS offerings. With self-service, a high level of automation and ease of integration into application build and release pipelines, encompassing underlying virtualisation and container platforms and integrating middleware software to provide a highly useable ecosystem. 

Working with solution designers and other relevant stakeholders, you will be responsible for understanding the requirements and technical design, develop the solution as per the design, write detailed test cases for component and integration testing, do the testing to make sure it is of the desired quality, support the testing phases and fix the defects as per SLA.

What will you be doing?

•    Accountable for the production of high quality software on a personal and team level adhering to all software engineering quality standards / benchmarks and meeting delivery timelines.
•    Comprehensive and clear documentation of the deliverables.
•    Ensure that developed code is free of tech debt and easy to maintain.
•    Collaborate with other team members to build technical solutions that meet customer needs. 
•    Keep up with the current and emerging software development methods, tools and standards.
•    Demonstrate passion for adoption of new tools, processes and technology trends to drive continuous improvement.
•    Identify the areas of improvement and come up with plans to optimize the engineering processes, focusing on automation and process simplification.
•    Keep up-to-date on the wider industry regulations, standards and trends.
•    Provide technical leadership to less senior members of the team.
•    Promote innovation, quality and exploration of new ideas as a culture. 
•    Maintain and contribute to development of relevant technical specialism in team.

What we’re looking for:

•    Strong understanding of enterprise design principles to build secure, fault tolerant and scalable systems.
•    Strong hands on development experience in core Java 11, with JPA/hibernate, Spring and event-driven concepts OR equivalent experience in Python
•    Strong knowledge of technologies such as Spring Boot & Angular/ReactJS.
•    Working Experience of API development using REST/SOAP with Spring. 
•    Working Experience of implementing API security and authentication (OAuth2, JWT etc.).
•    Ability to enforce code quality using tools like SonarQube, Veracode as feedback loops.
•    Working experience of developer tools like Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus, Git etc.
•    Working experience of IaC and Automation tools such as Ansible/Terraform OR Pub/Sub products such as Kafka.
•    Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, SRE and CI:CD.
•    Awareness of Cloud hosting – OpenShift Enterprise, AWS, etc.
•    Working knowledge of testing methodologies like TDD, BDD etc and testing automation.
•    Good communicator and team player.
•    A strong work ethic - team player, creative, passionate and disciplined

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Experience of working with RDBMS development experience (e.g. Oracle) & SQL skills
•    Working knowledge of cloud security and network concepts.
•    Experience working with PaaS products, including some experience of container orchestration / management utilising products such as Red Hat OpenShift / VMWare / AWS / Azure 

Where will you be working?
Chennai


Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower 
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.