Senior Developer

Join us as a Senior Developer at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

 You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as:

•    API and Microservice design patterns backed up by experience delivering and running the services you have built in production
•    Java and Spring Boot frameworks
•    Experience building event-driven services using Kafka or similar technologies
•    Analytical/problem solving mindset with excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and influencing skills
•    Experience in collaborating with teams in shaping and delivering software using agile methodologies
•    History of producing high quality code and championing good practices
•    Exposure to, and understanding of Cloud technologies
•    Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and leverage relationships and influence decision-making across a range of senior stakeholders and SMEs.
•    Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and software quality metrics

Additional relevant skills:

•    Exposure to DDD and frameworks used to deliver domain-driven applications and hypermedia APIs

•    Experience in working with geographically dispersed cross functional teams

•    Functional knowledge of various Payment Message formats

•    Experience identifying, analysing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

•    Familiarity with complex system integration and a strong, conceptual understanding of Cloud technologies, REST APIs and microservice-based architectures

•    Familiarity with Reactive programming and the Kafka Streams API

This role is based in Pune. 

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.