Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software
Barclays · Posted Oct 22
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Resilience Operations team, working alongside CTO Platform Engineering, builds cyber resilience and recovery tooling for teams across Barclays. The role involves a distributed microservices platform that orchestrates workflows across multi-infrastructure environments, integrates with enterprise governance systems, and handles real-time event streaming and state management. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain recovery tooling, partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams, and own architectural decisions while mentoring team members.
What you will do
- In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain cyber resilience and recovery tooling that enables teams across Barclays to autonomously manage protection and recovery operations.
- You'll work on a distributed microservices platform that orchestrates complex workflows across multi-infrastructure environments, integrates with enterprise governance systems, and handles real-time event streaming and state management.
- You will partner with infrastructure teams, security teams, and application owners to deliver solutions that reduce recovery times, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the bank's overall resilience posture.
- As a senior engineer, you'll own key architectural decisions, mentor team members, and contribute to evolving our platform's scalability, reliability, and security.
- 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
- React or Angular front-end development (responsive, accessible UIs).
- Go backend development, including REST API design and service integration.
- GitLab CI/CD pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy automation).
- Containerised applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift (deploy, run, troubleshoot).
Preferred qualifications
- TypeScript and modern front-end tooling and patterns.
- API security and integration: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, mTLS; data stores and messaging.
- Helm and Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and logging.
- Being a thought leader and innovator with experience in cloud and containerisation technologies.
- Proven track record of delivering transformation at scale, moving legacy applications to cloud native micro-services architecture.
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
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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