Principal Engineer, Python, VP

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• You’ll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

You’ll apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines. We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output.

You’ll also:

• Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Design and develop software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments
• Drive the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams
• Deliver software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services
• Write unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a strong background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as extensive experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm. You should also have development experience in a programming language, experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• Extensive experience in developing Python/Django applications and APIs
• Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
• Experience of setting up development environments in Windows, Linux, OSX, across multiple languages and tools (Python, Java, .NET, NodeJS, etc.)
• An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• Hands-on experience with Linux, writing bat scripts and PowerShell commands
• Strong automation experience using Ansible
• Good understanding of infrastructure and setting up CICD pipelines

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

25/02/2025