Back End Engineer

Bishopsgate

4 months ago

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Data Engineering Manager

Join us as a Back End Engineer

This is an opportunity for a technically minded Software Engineer to join NatWest Boxed

You'll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions

Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

You’ll join one of the core cross-functional mission teams to build and develop the NatWest Boxed technology product. We will look to you to develop clean, elegant and reusable code that is well-tested and easy to maintain and extend.

You’ll also:

Work with stakeholders across the business to drive the direction of NW Boxed engineering and put the long-term interests of customers at the heart of key decisions

Collaborate across our backend chapter to uphold standards, best practices and to promote innovation

Work collaboratively with the team to resolve technical issues

Support and oversee junior engineers and act as a subject matter expert

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a strong background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture. You should have solid practical and theoretical knowledge of Java software development as well as strong experience of Spring Boot / Micronaut.

You’ll also need:

An understanding of Kubernetes / Docker

An excellent understanding of AWS deployment and configuration

Experience working with message-driven architectures / Kafka / event sourcing

Experience working on a highly secure application

An understanding on how to translate business objectives into data driven insight

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