Senior Software Engineer - API

General information

Job Title Senior Software Engineer - API Ref # 8073 Location Edinburgh Department Engineering Business Area Engineering Working time Full-Time Date Published 03-03-2023

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Senior Software Engineer - API, Permanent

Edinburgh or Newcastle, Flexible/Remote working available

Excellent Salary & Benefits

Salary £50,240 - £62,800 & Benefits

The Role

• This role will be focused on helping us deliver APIs for our digital channel customer experiences across banking and insurance, using Google Edge, Business Works, EMS, AWS, Splunk & Data Dog..
• As a senior engineer, we’d be looking to you to lead API feature builds and technical proofs of concepts, help advise on industry best practices, leveraging your experience to assist in design and discovery phases and ultimately enhance our engineering team.
• Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
• Senior engineers are the lynchpin of our teams, working closely with junior engineers and product owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our lead and principal engineers on our longer-term technology goals.

What you’ll bring

We work with the following tech stack, 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 at Tesco Bank.

• Our API platform has been written using Google Edge, Business Works, EMS, Splunk & DataDog, you may have had experience on these platforms along with a background in core programming languages such as Javascript and/or Java on cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• A keen desired to get involved. We expect everyone to get involved in the design and support of our API platform. Our teams perform best when we collaborate, and we rely on our senior engineers to help us make the correct decision.
• A passion for sharing your experience. We know the journey of every engineer is different, so we encourage our senior engineers to actively mentor and support our junior engineers in their own journey. #LI-KP1

How to apply

We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, and look for ways to further develop themselves & career, and have an excellent work/life balance. 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?

At Tesco Bank everyone is welcome, we value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger in achieving our goals. It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.

Our purpose

The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it’s an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that’s changing the face of banking for our customers.
We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances.