Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer

Join Barclays as a Full Stack Developer, where you'll be part of the Wholesale Lending team to spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts.

To be successful as a Full Stack Developer, you should have experience with:

• Considerable Java software development including Spring Boot framework with ample core Java skills including but not limited to Generics, Collections, Multithreading, I/O, Streams, REST, and JDBC.
• Reading, writing, and debugging multithreaded Java code.
• Messaging queues such as KAFKA or Rabbit
  
  MQ.
• SQL and Non-SQL DBs. For Non-SQL MONGO DB is preferred.
• UI technologies such as React JS.
• UI test cases writing using JEST.
• JIRA, GIT, Intellij IDEA, Gitlab, Kibana, App Dynamics, Jenkins, Open Shift.
• Considerable experience in deployment process.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Good understanding of lending products, especially an understanding of how they are priced.
• Structured approach to problem solving and ability to mentor parallel streams of work.
• Experience writing highly performant and scalable solutions.

This role will be based in our Knutsford office.

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.

• 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.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• 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…