Senior Software Engineer

Join Barclays as a Senior Software Engineer

To design, develop, and improve software, utilising a range of engineering methodologies to deliver scalable business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

In this role, you will play a key part in driving innovation, ensuring high-quality solutions, and enhancing system performance while collaborating across teams to support the delivery of secure and reliable digital services.

To be successful as a Senior Software Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Considerable front-end development skills using modern frameworks (React, Angular) and core web technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and responsive UI design principles.
• Proven back-end development experience with Java and Spring technologies, including Spring Boot, REST APIs, and common security and integration patterns.
• Experience designing and building robust APIs, encompassing RESTful service design, versioning strategies, security (OAuth2/JWT), and performance optimisation.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architectures, and event sourcing, with an understanding of how these patterns support scalable, maintainable distributed systems.
• Solid background in microservices architecture, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, and the use of real-time messaging frameworks (e.g. Kafka) to support asynchronous processing and resilience.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including deploying, configuring, and operating applications in cloud-native environments.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Glasgow.