Full Stack Engineer in Knutsford

Embark on a transformative journey as a Full Stack Engineer at Barclays. Our vision is to design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, to provide business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

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

• Server‑side Development: Ample Python programming skills with experience building APIs, microservices architecture, and data processing pipelines. Familiarity with Python frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI for creating robust backend services.
• Cloud Technologies: Experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), understanding of infrastructure as code, containerisation (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Full Stack Performance and Monitoring: Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the entire application stack, ensuring efficient database queries and API responses on the backend. Understand and implement necessary tools for monitoring and observing systems end‑to‑end.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Understanding of build pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes for full stack applications. Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Frontend Development: Understanding of JavaScript fundamentals, ES6+, closures, promises, async/await, and functional programming concepts.
• AI & Machine Learning: Familiarity working with the latest AI technologies: Gen AI chatbots and AI agents, MCP.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Experience with testing methodologies and tools across the stack (pytest, unittest for Python) and ability to implement comprehensive test coverage.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

The location of your role is Knutsford/Glasgow.

Purpose of the role: To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, to provide business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities:

• Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions using industry‑aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimised 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, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organisation’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.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, defining jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• May lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• 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.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.