This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Payments team within the Paymod Value Stream as a Senior Engineer. This value stream is responsible for developing a new Platinum Business Service payments system using cloud based services. This is a very critical Payments system which is core to our member's banking needs.
To build this new vision we are looking to recruit a new Applications Engineer, who has proven experience in coding and DevOps, who is an agile thinker and ready to help us learn new technologies and architectures.
You'll be at the frontline, delivering our vision to our members by designing, building, testing and maintaining systems used to process millions of transactions every day. You'll be given the opportunity to work with the most up-to-date technologies to deliver real change.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time,
based at either our Swindon or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doingJoining Nationwide, you will work within Payments/Paymod.
You will be responsible for
- Building high quality and scalable cloud hosted microservices
- Maintaining and supporting existing applications including defect triage and fixing
- Developing within a scrum team and collaborating with other build teams
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Communicating technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences
- Assist in the refinement of user stories, estimates and work plans
- Contribute to low level design authoring
- Participate in peer-reviews of technical solution designs and related code
- Ensuring that all build output is comprehensively tested including the writing of automated testing
- Conduct code peer reviews to ensure adherence to development standards and frameworks
- Mentoring of more junior members of your team
- Identify and encourage improved ways of working and adherence to agile methodologies
Note, you may be required to work "on-call" from time to time.
About youWe are looking for a Applications Engineer with strong Java skills who will work with a community of multi skilled teams who build and maintain highly scalable solutions.
We need someone with expertise including:
- Extensive Java development skills and in depth knowledge of the language including Sprint Boot
- Familiar with XML, JSON data structure and storage within NoSQL datastores
- Testing methodologies including Behaviour Driven Development and Test Driven Development
- Tooling including Docker, Kubernetes, Wiremock, Cucumber, Harness, Jenkins, Junit, Kafka, Atlassian Jira & Confluence, SonarQube and Dynatrace
- Building microservice architectures and event driven architectures
- Building cloud hosted solutions and utilising cloud base services
- Experience of working to SCRUM/agile principles and methodologies
- Extensive experience in problem solving and designing solutions
- Performing functional or non-functional testing
- Possess technical leadership skills and excellent organisational skills
- Good mentoring skills with the ability to inspire other engineers
- Management of and engagement with our engineering partners and 3rd party suppliers
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
- Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
- Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
- Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.
The extras you'll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
What makes us differentNationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.
As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
What to do nextIf this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
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