Senior Software Engineer
On site
Cheshire West And Chester, United Kingdom
£ 78,810 / year
Full Time
25-03-2025
Job Specifications
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Chester
Salary: £70,929 £78,810
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Chester office.
About this opportunity
As Senior Software Engineer, you'll bring your deep technical expertise to the table, driving technical development and delivery in key areas. You'll focus on solving complex challenges with your specialised knowledge taking ownership of critical tech delivery within your team.
In this role, you'll lead way in shaping the direction of our software solutions, using your expertise to make impactful decisions and drive success. You'll collaborate closely with the team and product owner to ensure delivery excellence. If you're someone who thrives on delivering high-quality solutions and making real impact with your technical know-how, we'd love to hear from you!
About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose.
What you'll do
Working within the Financial Wellbeing Platform you can play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. The Platform's purpose is to create a leading experience to help our customers before, during and after financial difficulty. You can ensure we help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing.
We aim to achieve this purpose through improving colleague tools, creating tools to allow customers to better handle their day-to-day finances, and by simplifying the Customer Financial Assistance (CFA) systems through an increased focus on Automation, DevOps, Cloud technologies and Rationalisation. Our aim is to generate a forward-thinking agile culture that supports CFA in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for our customers.
Lead in the migration of the current Motor Debt Manager system onto a new Cloud (SaaS) based Debt Manager 12 solution
Drive the success of Engineering within the Financial Wellbeing Platform by sharing your knowledge and experiences and growing capability through quality upskilling
Recognize the importance of quality and hence create and implement approaches, guidelines and principles defined by themselves and their Engineering peers
Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, promoting a culture of collaboration across boundaries, where people can express themselves honestly
What you'll need
Extensive experience of the full end-to-end software engineering lifecycle
Strong Background in Object Orientated programming languages - preferably Java with solid understanding of JavaScript
Good Experience of development frameworks preferably Spring and Spring Boot
Knowledge and Experience of DevOps tooling and principles including GitHub, Jenkins, UCD
Experience of Relational Databases e.g. Oracle, SQL Server
Experience of using REST and SOAP APIs within applications
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
Share schemes including free shares.
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
About the Company
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all mak... Know more
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