Senior Software Engineer

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process. If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing

Day-to-day you’ll be leading a team delivering first-class solutions in an Agile environment, adopting DevOps practices to enable rapid iteration and driving continuous improvements. You’ll work closely with the Lead Engineer and Technology Lead to ensure the quality of your solutions are resilient and stand up to being used by thousands of people every day.

You’ll be responsible for mentoring and developing your team to help build our development process and strategies.

We want you to nurture and value proactive habits and to develop contacts and relationships, so things are done faster and more efficiently. We will expect you to get stuck in and have a go, and we will provide any support needed to learn new things in new areas.

Line Management responsibility within a feature team to include capability development, coaching, nurturing, performance management and pastoral care.

On-call: This position does require on-call, which is currently one week in every 12. This is a 24* rota and being on-call and call outs will be compensated.

About You

As a minimum requirement, you’ll have:

• Proven experience in MSO systems and Mortgage sales and APIs is a must
• Knowledge of MSO forms engine and MSO workflow
• Proven experience of designing and implementing full-stack solutions with knowledge of.NET or JavaScript frameworks
• Experience designing and deploying microservices and distributed systems with usage of event streaming such as Kafka.
• Experience in AWS hosting APIs and using IAM, S3, Lambda, EKS, Route53.
• Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes, Git Source Control, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Harness), Infrastructure as Code
• Good understanding of modern development practices
• Experience of managing and leading small teams
• Working knowledge of emerging technologies e.g. cloud-native architectures, DevOps engineering and container based continuous delivery, cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience of coordinating complex release schedules, managing cross-team dependencies, and engaging stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and live proving activities with minimal operational risk.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

Qualifications

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• Private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

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