Software Engineer

Location: Edinburgh (Permanent)

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 March at 5pm

A chance to thrive

Join our iOS mobile banking team and help shape the customer experience for one of the UK’s most widely used banking apps. You’ll work across customer‑facing journeys, lower level app code, and the CI/CD pipelines that deliver it. You’ll play a key part in delivering new features and modernising our codebase. You’ll collaborate closely with other mobile engineers and our tech lead, with regular one‑to‑one sessions from a senior engineer to support your growth. We’ll support your development with access to engineering communities, talks and events, exposure to SAFe ways of working and opportunities to influence how the team evolves. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in a well‑established iOS team where ideas are welcomed and your contribution matters.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing the iOS mobile application using Swift
• Collaborating with analysts, POs, UX designers, testers and scrum masters in your working team
• Working on automations and tooling associated with development and release of the app
• Owning the tech debt in the application, helping establish consistent best‑practice and finding new ways of improving things

We need you to have

• A strong grasp of OO principles, SOLID principles, testability, design patterns and anti‑patterns
• A collaborative, pragmatic mindset and strong critical‑thinking faculties
• Mobile development experience
• Experience working with Swift and ideally Objective‑C or one other language

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience working in an agile environment
• Line management experience
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Experience utilising AI effectively in a development environment

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

• Plan confidently for the future with our non‑contributory colleague pension scheme.
• Access Private Medical Insurance, including a convenient GP service.
• Enjoy a discretionary annual incentive.
• Take time to rest and recharge with 25 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays.
• Make the most of our family‑friendly benefits, including enhanced maternity pay, shared parental leave and paid paternity leave.
• Grow your skills with our ongoing learning and development opportunities, designed to help you build the career you want.
• Choose from a range of flexible benefits so you can tailor a package that works best for you.

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.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do. It means we put your wellbeing first and give you bags of support, training and development, so you can build the career that’s right for you. It’s about looking after each other with the same care that we give to our customers. We’ve created an environment where everyone feels included, accepted and welcome. Which means you can bring your whole self to work every day and totally thrive at the same time. Lovely. Say hello to life in Tesco Bank.