Software Engineer (Backend)

• We’re looking for Full Life Cycle Engineers to join our Segments & Propositions Relationships Lab in Bristol
• Our Mass Affluent segment includes customers with investable assets ranging from £50,000 to £5 million
• With nearly three million Mass Affluent customers, we are dedicated to developing personalized and tailored offerings to provide an exceptional banking experience
• Our goal is to deliver a seamless digital experience, offering the right products and services at our customers’ fingertips, while maintaining the importance of face-to-face, telephone, and secure messaging services

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
• A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
• Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
• Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
• Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
• Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
• Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our ‘Your Tomorrow’ scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.- Designing / refining system architecture
• Database design: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Using cloud platforms and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure etc)
• Kubernetes and Linux OS
• Exposure to continuous integration pipeline and test automation
• Gradle/Maven
• Code using backend technologies (Java 8+ , Spring Ecosystem )
• Integration with external services (SOAP, REST, GraphQL)
• Test automation: BDD/Playwright/Cyprus/COESF
• Exposure to public cloud infrastructure
• Second programming language
• And any experience of these would be really useful:
• Distributed and scalable applications principles
• Building RESTful services or Web UI
• Exposure to Kotlin, iOS, Android, Flutter or Rust
• Experience with Hibernate ORM
• Understanding of networking principles, tools and equipment
• Exposure Linux system admin tools
• Exposure to Quarkus
• Exposure to Go
• Exposure with Python and Big Data technologies including ML- End Date: Tuesday 13 October 2026