Associate, Software Developer in London

The Associate is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the Bank’s platforms and software solutions. The Associate plays a critical role within the squad, taking a lead on designing, developing and optimising EBRD's infrastructure and software solutions within their own value stream. The Associate provides guidance to individual contributors and works closely with other multi-functional teams and business product owners, to deliver high quality, product aligned services that meets our users' needs. The role may involve leading small projects and the individual is expected to be proficient in software design and ability to implement CI/CD pipeline, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or technologies within their specialism.

Software Design and Development

• Responsible for debugging and troubleshooting to resolve software issues.
• Accountable for designing and developing large-scale, high-availability backend systems.
• Responsible for API design principles, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Responsible for hands-on experience with messaging systems (ActiveMQ, Azure Service Bus) and event-driven architecture.
• Responsible for containerisation, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development.
• Week to month responsibility for design, development, testing, and maintenance of high-quality software solutions.
• Operates without supervision in writing clear, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining RESTful APIs ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Responsible for integrating third-party services and APIs.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Extensive working experience in C/C++ (preferably C++ 17 or later) and C#, Oracle.
• Knowledge of Python/Perl is preferable.
• Extensive working experience in developing and optimising RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Confident with relational databases (Oracle SQL).
• Extensive working experience with messaging systems such as ActiveMQ or Azure Service Bus.
• Extensive working experience responsible for code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices for development.
• Confident in writing unit and integration tests using frameworks like Google unit test ensure code quality.
• Confident in managing complex automated testing frameworks and tools to ensure the reliability and performance of C/C++ solutions.
• Solid understanding of deployment and release processes, ensuring smooth rollouts of new features.
• Extensive working experience in monitoring production systems, investigates issues, and provides timely resolutions.
• Extensive working experience in maintaining clear documentation of code and processes specific to SUMMIT, following established guidelines.
• Confident in providing ongoing support and troubleshooting for SUMMIT solutions.
• Extensive working experience to automate repetitive tasks and improves development workflows using scripting and DevOps practices.
• Extensive working experience in DevOps.
• Extensive working experience to design and implementation of data models and schemas for SUMMIT solutions.
• Solid understanding to evaluates and recommends best practices for integrating SUMMIT with external systems and third-party services.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment.
• Effective communication with peers and willingness to ask questions.
• Basic documentation and technical writing skills.
• Ability to manage time and tasks effectively in an Agile environment.

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people’s lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.