Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

Permanent

Salary – Up to £72,500 + annual bonus & benefits

Location – Edinburgh

Office Attendance- Our roles are hybrid, however you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date – Applications close 4th February at 5pm

A chance to thrive

• We have an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering Practice and lead engineering feature teams in our Help Me Spend and Save Value Stream.
• You’ll Lead the development, delivery, and optimisation of customer facing web applications that onboard customers into the bank and maintain their product holdings.
• You’ll be key in delivering value across the feature builds whilst collaborating with your fellow Software and Test Engineers to build new features and ensure the quality of our customer facing web applications.
• We work with Agile at scale and this is a unique opportunity to experience a modern engineering workplace.

What you’ll be doing

• This role will be focused on helping us create highly available Web Apps, using JavaScript/Typescript, React, and NodeJS. Apps are built on AWS and monitored using Datadog.
• As a Lead Engineer, you’ll lead multiple Software Engineering feature teams, providing an opportunity to demonstrate and enhance your leadership skills.
• Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, you’ll have the opportunity to set the direction and drive through service improvements, features, and changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.
• You’ll work closely with all engineers on your team, from seniors to juniors, mentoring and building their careers. This provides a chance to share your knowledge and help others grow.
• We encourage engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve their teams and the wider engineering community creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• You’ll act as a subject matter expert with architecture, product, cloud, and testing teams, allowing you to showcase and further develop your expertise.
• You’ll also work closely with Principal Engineers on longer-term technology goals providing an excellent opportunity for career advancement.

We need you to have

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript/Typescript, Node and one UI framework (such as React) along with best practice experience of unit testing in this ecosystem.
• Ability to deliver high quality, easily maintainable and well tested code that can lead to rapid delivery allowing us to pursue continuous integration and delivery.
• Deep understanding of web security concepts leading to secure code by default.
• Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts as well as supporting and running the services, you have developed.
• Experience of coaching both junior and senior Software Engineers

And if you have any of these, even better

• Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints
• Experience developing code that follows accessibility guidelines
• Good knowledge of AWS services and/or containerisation technologies
• We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Everyone’s welcome?

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.