Junior Software Engineer

Junior Software Engineer

Full-Time 30000 - 40000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
Limelight Health

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Join our team to build and enhance scalable payment systems.
  • Company: Be part of Barclays, a leader in fintech innovation.
  • Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, hybrid work, and growth opportunities.
  • Other info: Collaborate with diverse teams and develop your skills in a supportive culture.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Qualifications: Experience with cloud technologies and programming languages like Rust or Go.

The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.

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Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing a fintech culture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business (BPL) provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and corporate clients.

This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation.

Our platform & infrastructure team provide the hardened, high-velocity foundations that allow our product teams to ship code to production that moves billions of pounds with total confidence.

As a Junior Software Engineer on our Platform team, you are a builder and multiplier for how our engineering organisation ships software.

Our execution is high impact and, in this role, where you’ll be part of wide-ranging deliverables, being hands‑on with product and delivery colleagues.

Essential Skills

  • Evidence of working with engineering teams on complex, scalable systems.

You’ve seen things break at scale, and worked with your Engineering leads to resolve issues in a sustainable way.

  • Working knowledge of Cloud, Kubernetes, and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
  • Competent in at least two languages (e. g., Rust, Go, Kotlin) and a "right tool for the job" philosophy.
  • Experience of collaborating with various stakeholders such as Product Managers.
  • Highly Valued Skills
  • Confident to partner with technical and non‑technical stakeholders throughout the journey and explaining complex technical concepts in an easy‑to‑understand manner.
  • Demonstrating a product thinking mindset - we treat the platform as a product, with fellow engineers as our customers.
  • The successful candidate will be based in
  • London . Our offices are located at
  • 1 Churchill Place and
  • 7 Westferry Circus
  • (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with

3 days per week office‑based presence expected.

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Limelight Health

Contact Details:

Limelight Health Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Junior Software Engineer

Cloud Computing
Kubernetes
CNCF Ecosystem
Rust
Go
Kotlin
Scalable Systems