Software engineer
Barclays · Posted Oct 29
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is seeking a Software Engineer to help evolve its digital landscape and build scalable, secure infrastructure. The role spans microservices, Spring Boot, REST APIs, event-driven architecture with Kafka/SQS, AWS, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and AI-powered development tools. It combines hands-on technical leadership with managing engineering squads, platform strategy, governance, and stakeholder engagement.
What you will do
- Maintain strong hands-on technical credibility — actively engaged in architecture decisions, design reviews, and technical governance
- Enforce and evolve engineering standards, including API design, security, observability, and resiliency
- Drive adoption of AI-powered engineering tools across the SDLC to maximise team velocity and quality
- Accountable for the platform's AWS cloud estate — architecture, cost optimisation, security posture, and compliance
- Lead the platform's OpenShift/Kubernetes strategy for containerised workloads and hybrid cloud operations
- Lead, inspire, and develop a team of 30–40 engineers and leads across multiple squads
- Build a culture of engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
- Develop next-generation leaders — identify, coach, and accelerate high-potential AVPs, leads, and senior engineers
- Drive workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, and retention strategies
- Lead by example — remain technically engaged; set the standard for quality and innovation
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the engineering organisation
- Ensure platform compliance with Barclays' technology risk, security, and audit standards
- Own incident management escalations, risk acceptance decisions, and remediation plans
- Represent the platform in senior governance forums, architecture boards, and leadership reviews
- Build trusted partnerships with Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and senior Business leaders
- Present platform performance, roadmap updates, and risk posture to CTO/MD-level stakeholders
- Influence investment decisions and business cases for platform capabilities
- 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
- Strong hands-on experience with Microservices, Spring Boot, REST APIs, event-driven architecture (Kafka/SQS)
- AWS Mandatory — proven AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, and managed services
- OpenShift Experience deploying and managing workloads on OpenShift/Kubernetes
- AI Tools Advanced knowledge of AI-powered development tools and their integration into SDLC
- Languages Java (primary), Python (advantageous)
- Platform Engineering Solid understanding of application platforms, service mesh, observability, and SRE practices
- People Management Experience managing teams of 15–20 engineers; coaching and developing talent
- Agile Strong Agile/SAFe delivery experience
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Cards, Payments, or Financial Services platforms
- Familiarity with Barclays technology standards and risk/control frameworks
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer Associate)
- Strategic Technology Leadership
- Engineering Excellence
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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