Senior Full Stack Developer

About the role

Barclays is recruiting a Senior Full Stack Developer in its Core Platform Service group within Markets Post Trade, joining the Core UI Platform services team in London. The role focuses on building reusable libraries, services and configurable business process orchestration to speed delivery across a range of markets post trade applications. The position is permanent.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and improve software that delivers business, platform and technology capabilities to customers and colleagues.
• Develop and deliver high-quality software using industry-standard languages, frameworks and tools, keeping code scalable, maintainable and performance-optimised.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and other engineers on requirements, solution strategy and integration.
• Take part in code reviews and promote code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Follow secure coding practices and implement effective unit testing.
• Contribute to technology communities and stay informed of industry trends.

Required profile

• Industry experience with Java development and extensive knowledge of Java 17 or higher.
• Strategic thinking: translating business goals into technology solutions and proposing pragmatic alternatives.
• Experience architecting, designing and developing applications, including debugging and optimising code.
• Legal right to work in the UK; the role may be subject to enhanced governance and regulatory compliance obligations.

Required skills

• Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• At least one messaging platform (MQ, TIBCO, Kafka or Solace).
• RDBMS such as Oracle, MS-SQL or PostgreSQL.
• Camunda BPM and BPMN 2.0.
• Nice to have: distributed cache (Ignite, Redis), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Docker/Kubernetes, Angular/React/Vue.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript.

What we offer

• Competitive holiday allowance.
• Life assurance and private medical care.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible working arrangements discussed with the hiring manager; hybrid working with fixed anchor days.