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Vice President – Software Engineer (Java / Python / Go / AWS) | Manchester (Hybrid)
A Tier 1 bank is bringing its UK engineering in-house—and it needs senior engineers to lead the rebuild, not just contribute to it. With modern tooling, greenfield builds, and genuine autonomy over technical direction, this isn’t merely an upgrade: you’ll be untangling legacy estates, owning migration decisions, and setting the standard for how engineering is done at scale.
The Role
You’ll take a leading role in a full-stack team designed to outperform traditional models, working with Java on the backend, React on the frontend, and AWS as infrastructure. You won’t just deliver—you’ll own technical decisions across new builds and existing systems, shape architecture rather than inherit it, and collaborate directly with product, design, and senior stakeholders to define direction rather than just fulfil requirements.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of software for both greenfield and legacy codebases
- Own architecture decisions for AWS-hosted systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security are embedded from the outset
- Establish and enforce engineering standards—driving code reviews, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar across the team
- Make critical decisions on complex migrations, including deciding what to rebuild, what to refactor, and what to retire
- Act as a technical advisor to senior business stakeholders, translating engineering trade-offs into commercial strategy
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Requirements
- Deep, hands-on backend experience in Java, Python, or Go—you still write production-readable code
- Strong judgment in full-stack architecture, with an understanding of how systems integrate and where they’ll fail
- Confident expertise in React, capable of leading and credibly reviewing frontend work
- A proven track record of delivering in complex, regulated, legacy-heavy, or large-scale environments (banking experience is valuable but not mandatory)
- Security-first mindset applied as standard in all decisions
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence stakeholders beyond the engineering function
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