Software Engineering | S3 | Payment CoE

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A great opportunity is available to join the Core Payments Technology Team as a Software Engineer.  This is a very exciting time for the Payments Technology Team as we transform how we operate and our technical landscape to meet evolving customer expectations and industry changes.

You will play a key role as we Design, Develop, Test and Deploy applications, being responsible from the definition through to implementation, to make a real difference to our business.  You will provide extensive leadership skills combined with ingenuity and drive to deliver quality solutions.

We're building a motivated team with big goals across International and Domestic Payments - so we seek individuals who are truly passionate about their work and possess the enthusiasm to make things happen.

The difference you’ll make:

• Delivering high quality product and services to exceed customers expectation by driving our data approach is at the heart of our transformation through the application of Cloud-Native and Open-source technologies
• Discussing functional and technical solutions with the different stakeholders in the business, UX designers, architecture, and engineering managers to ensure US are refined and understood at the correct level
• Developing user stories working solo or pairing with a colleague/ Presenting and communicating at all levels
• Writing the automated testing required to ensure your stories meet the criteria to be considered “Done”
• Ensuring delivered solutions are developed under DevOps practices and latest technology trends, with keeping the solutions delivered running healthy in production minimising incidents and maximising quality of service
• Becoming a role model and mentor to the rest of the Technical team whilst working independently and be self-motivated

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Extensive experience developing and building software solutions end to end through the whole software life cycle
• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Java) and experience of software Engineering, in Application Development using the most recent versions of JavaScript, CSS, Java and Springboot
• Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture running on PaaS infrastructure
• Broad experience of agile software development practices (Unit testing, Test driven development or continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
• Experience using GitHub, Jira, Jenkins during the development lifecycle as well as using automated tools to evaluate robustness, quality and vulnerabilities of the code developed
• Experience of using agile methodologies, Test-driven development (TDD) and Behaviour-driven development (BDD)

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Experience of UK payment flows, preferably an understanding of ISO20022 and end to end payment journey implications
• Due diligence around Risk controls, managing and mitigation of risks in the project lifecycle, performing security checks of systems and monitors quality metrics
• Excellent understanding of The AWS services and Well-Architected framework, event-driven architecture and adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation)
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Mongo DB) and experience in both Front end and Backend technologies and willingness to learn and evolve

What else you need to know:

This permanent role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.