Senior Software Engineer

Shawbrook provides finance to a wide range of customer segments that value the premium experience, flexibility and certainly we deliver.  We are a purpose-led organisation, with a focus on delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders.

We have a diversified offering, with our innovative lending propositions tailored to meet specific customer needs in carefully selected markets across SME, Real Estate and Personal. Our products range from complex structured credit facilities for growth-focused businesses to mortgages for professional landlords and property investors, as well as simple loans for consumers delivered digitally.  We fuel our lending through customer deposits, which we attract by delivering a premium experience, choice and consistently great value to smart savers.

The business model we have created is unique and difficult to replicate, with our ‘best of both’ approach combining deep human expertise with advanced digital, tech and data capabilities.  This combination not only allows us to deliver excellent customer experiences, but to do so efficiently and at scale.  We are proud of our innovative and agile culture, which drives consistently high employee engagement scores and makes Shawbrook an attractive destination for the best talent. If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you’re our kind of person.

Work with us because you:

• Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world
• Relish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative and hardworking culture
• Enjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen
• Want to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups
• Care about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares too
• Want to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

You will be working as a Senior Software Engineer in the product team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements and functionality using Agile methodologies, ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout

You’ll work with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software and will participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security.

Working with the support team, you’ll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. You will also take responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system

You must be able to work across multiple facets of projects and be able to juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time.

You will engage directly with IT management, development teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building and maintaining application software to further our product delivery objectives.  As a growing team with a broad remit, this role offers excellent exposure to business users and management where you will be able to clearly see the impact of the work you and the team are doing.
• Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions.
• Assist in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing
• Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities
• Be a strong voice in all team ceremonies, including planning, estimation and backlog refinement.
• Provide a technical view point in discussions on resource assignment
• Working with the support team to deployment and monitor services in production.
• Taking responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system
• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.
• Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes
• Strict adherence to Shawbrook technical standards

Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience of experience designing and building complex software end-to-end systems which have been efficiently delivered to production
• Broad experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems.
• Ability to work independently
• Expert in at least one language (C#, Python, Javascript, Pega or Salesforce) including object-oriented design
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills

Key attributes

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Stakeholder management skills, and ability to communicate with all levels from peers through to managers.
• Growth mindset

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done