Software Engineer, AVP

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, youll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• Were offering this role at associate vice president level

What youll do

In your new role, you ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills youll need

You ll need a background in software engineering with experience of 8+ years, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You ll also need:

• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python and/or Scala. Knowledge of other languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript) is often a plus.
• Frameworks & Libraries: Python: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Pandas, NumPy, PySpark. Scala: Akka, Play Framework, Apache Spark, and other Scala-based libraries.
• Big Data Technologies: Experience with Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Version Control: Proficiency with Git and version control systems.
• Databases: Experience with SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Data Structures & Algorithms: Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures, and the ability to apply them effectively.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines and related tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Testing: Experience with unit testing frameworks (e.g., PyTest, ScalaTest, JUnit).