Java Software Engineer, Financial Crime Technology
| Posting date: | 17 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00237163 |
Summary
Join us as a Java Software Engineer, Financial Crime Technology
- 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
- You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a minimum 2 days per week working from the office
What you'll do
As a Java Software Engineer, you’ll gather and analyse metrics from Software as a service (SAAS) partners, in-house components as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding. 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.
You’ll also:
- Measure and optimise system performance, with an eye towards pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvemen
- Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs 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
- Drive 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
- Integrate various SAAS applications using RESTful and SOAP APIs
The skills you'll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll understand core Java, including object-oriented programming, multi-threading, data structures, and essential Java libraries and frameworks such as Spring Boot. In addition, you'll need development experience in a programming language, and experience of job scheduling using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling.
You’ll also need:
- Experience in version control tools, particular GitLab, and experience with CI/CD concepts and tools
- Experience with SAAS based applications, cloud services, deployment and management
- Knowledge of OAuth, HTTP protocols, request and response handling, JSON, and XML data formats
- Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales
- 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