Job Description:
Software Engineer
About the Role:
Our engineering teams' guiding principle and its philosophy have always been to get things right through practicing disciplined engineering, not cutting corners, and of course having fun while we are at it. We believe in enabling ownership at all levels of the organization and empowering teams. If this culture is for you, you will learn a lot while enjoying everyday and staying abreast with cutting-edge industry technologies and practices collaborating with a large engineering team.
The Risk Center Third Party (RCTP) Team is looking for a Software Engineer based in Glasgow, who will manage the development, integration, support and maintenance of the RCTP platform and ensure that they follow established SDLC policies, procedures and guidelines. We are looking for creative and passionate engineers who want to be hands-on, design, implement and own code all the way through deployment and in production.
You Will:
Play an essential role in all stages of the product life cycle, take ownership and have the initiative for building new software and ensure existing is functioning
Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
Contribute to technical discussions and help drive effective technical decisions covering their area of responsibility
Understand and practice Agile software development and management
Build and execute rigorous load, stress and performance tests before deploying software
Work on a flagship, market leading product
Work in a cloud-native environment
Work on the latest cutting edge technologies, in a collaborative, supportive environment
You Have:
Experience of design, development, and deployment of backend application software
NoSQL database experience, Azure Cosmos DB is a plus but not required. Expertise of transactions, ACID compliance, data normalization and queries optimization.
Solid working knowledge of .Net Framework with C# in building resilient applications including asynchronous programming, queuing, caching, logging, xml/json serialization and security.
Extremely good troubleshooting skills especially with middle-tier and database applications.
Experience in writing unit, functional, performance, soak and stress tests. Knowledge of BDD is a plus
Desired:
Ideally 3+ years of design, development, and deployment of application software
Skills & proficiency in the development of web applications which includes websites & APIs using technologies such as NodeJS, Nginx, Apache, Tomcat.
Working knowledge of any mainstream front-end technologies such as Javascript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Razor Views and CSS.
Experience with Git, Azure Devops
Troubleshooting skills especially with middle-tier and database applications.
Experience implementing ReSTful APIs following JSON API standards
Experience writing unit tests using Mocha, Karma.JS, testing with Phantom browser or other such tools. Knowledge of Cucumber is a plus
Familiarity with browser and mobile app testing and debugging, building responsive front-end applications.
Experience designing and deploying applications in cloud-based environment is a plus
Our Benefits:
Comprehensive Healthcare & Dental Plans
Retirement Plans
Education Benefits
Family Care Benefits
Career Growth Programs
Employee Referral Program
Fitness reimbursement plan
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Business Area: TECHNOLOGY - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Job Category: IT Development Group
Union Status:
Non-Union role
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Req ID: 35509
