Software Engineer

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer, PySpark

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer

You’ll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions

Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

We’re offering this role at associate level

What you’ll do

You’ll apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines. We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output.

You’ll also:

Design and develop reusable libraries and application programming interfaces for use across the bank

Design and develop software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments

Support the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams

Deliver software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services

Write unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you’ll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm. You should also have development experience in a programming language, experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

At least four years of experience with AWS, Python, and PySpark

Experience in Unix or Linux scripting and the ability to write Spark SQL and ANSI SQL

Experience in Spark SQL query optimization, performance tuning, and Airflow

An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions

The ability to understand and support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams