Full Stack Engineer - VP
Barclays · Posted Oct 22
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
Pune, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff10+ years₹40.0L–₹70.0L yearly100+ applicants
BankingFinancial ServicesInvestment BankingCredit CardsWealth ManagementPublic Company
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About the role
Barclays is hiring a VP Full Stack Engineer to help evolve infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and digital solutions in a regulated banking environment. The role spans Java/Spring backend systems, microservices, event-driven integration, modern frontend technologies, cloud/containerization, and enterprise blockchain/DLT platforms. Based in Pune, it involves software design and delivery, secure coding, code reviews, and collaboration with product, architecture, QA, security, and DevOps teams.
What you will do
- To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Extensive hands-on experience in Java (JDK 17+), Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and building highly scalable, secure backend systems for financial and enterprise applications.
- Strong expertise in RESTful API design and development, microservices architecture, and service-to-service integrations in high-volume transactional environments.
- Strong experience in workflow orchestration and workflow management platforms, including designing and implementing long-running business processes, stateful workflows, and automation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms, including Apache Kafka and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Strong experience with enterprise integration frameworks such as Apache Camel (or equivalent), implementing routing, mediation, transformation, orchestration, and API integration patterns across distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of end-to-end full-stack development, including frontend-backend integration and asynchronous communication patterns.
- Hands-on experience with modern UI technologies including React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, responsive web design, and frontend testing frameworks such as Jest or Jasmine.
- Experience working with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases, with strong focus on data integrity and performance.
- Strong knowledge of security standards and practices including OAuth2, JWT, authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure coding guidelines.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, build tools (Maven, Gradle), and secure deployments.
- Proficiency with version control systems (Git) and enterprise development workflows.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, system resiliency, fault tolerance, observability, and production support in mission-critical environments.
- Experience leading technical design discussions, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers in large delivery teams.
- Hands-on experience developing and integrating solutions on Hyperledger Besu or other enterprise blockchain platforms.
- Strong understanding of blockchain network architecture, node operations, transaction lifecycle, consensus mechanisms, and enterprise DLT deployments.
- Practical experience developing, integrating, testing, and supporting Smart Contracts and blockchain-enabled business workflows.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with blockchain networks through APIs, events, message-driven architectures, and middleware platforms.
- Strong experience working in regulated environments with strict compliance, audit, and governance requirements.
- Deep understanding of system resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and performance optimization.
- Solid knowledge of design patterns, object-oriented principles, and enterprise architecture best practices.
- Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, integration testing, and contract testing.
- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and large-scale delivery models.
- Ability to collaborate closely with product owners, architects, QA, security, and DevOps teams.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical solutions to business and senior stakeholders.
- Banking domain knowledge such as Payments & Transfer, Treasury, Settlement, Reconciliation, Regulatory and Compliance Controls.
- Experience building Digital Asset, Blockchain, Tokenization, Custody, Settlement, or Enterprise DLT platforms.
- Good understanding of workflow-driven architectures, orchestration patterns, event-driven systems, and distributed transaction processing.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API-led architectures, and interoperability across complex banking ecosystems.
- Experience integrating on-chain and off-chain applications across enterprise platforms and blockchain networks.
Preferred qualifications
- Ethereum and EVM-Based Blockchain Platforms
- Smart Contract Development and Integration
- Tokenization Concepts and Platforms
- Digital Asset Custody Concepts
- Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
- Blockchain Architecture and Design
- Wallet and Key Management Concepts
- Blockchain Security and Auditing Concepts
- Enterprise Blockchain Integration Patterns
- Web3 Fundamentals and Ecosystem Awareness
- Artificial Intelligence & Developer Productivity
- AI-Assisted Software Development
- Unit Test Generation
- Code Review Automation
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) Awareness
- AI-enabled SDLC and Engineering Productivity Practices
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
CV
C.S. Venkatakrishnan
Group Chief Executive
AC
Anna Cross
Group Finance Director
AC
Alistair Currie
Group Chief Operating Officer
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