Software Engineer

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

As a Software Engineer within Corporate Fraud, you will contribute to the design of, and build, test and support, secure, resilient and scalable services that enable real-time and batch fraud detection across corporate banking payment channels. You will work closely with product owners, business analysts, test engineers, architects and platform teams to deliver change across the Corporate Fraud technology estate.

To be successful as a Software Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Hands-on software engineering using Java, including modern Java features, object-oriented design, collections, exception handling, concurrency and unit testing.
• Development of enterprise services using Spring Boot, microservices and REST APIs, with practical experience of API design, implementation, integration and support.
• Working with event-driven and distributed systems using technologies such as Kafka and AWS services including SQS, S3 and RDS.
• Working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including data modelling, SQL, performance optimisation and reliable data access patterns.
• Containerisation and cloud-native delivery using Docker and AWS, with an understanding of deployment, runtime resilience, observability and production support.
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery using GitLab CI/CD, source control and automated quality gates.
• Writing and maintaining automated unit, API and integration tests, with a focus on maintainability and effective test coverage.
• End-to-end Agile delivery using Jira and Confluence, including refinement of technical requirements, estimation, implementation, peer review and support through testing and release.

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Experience with NICE Actimize, including IFMX/FPP, ActOne or related fraud-detection capabilities.
• Knowledge of corporate banking or wholesale banking, fraud detection and the attended and unattended payment-channel landscape.
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 and other payment-messaging formats, payment processing patterns and high-value/high-volume payment flows.
• Experience of re-platforming, migration, data-driven back-end programmes and integration with third-party SaaS products.
• Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS EKS/ECS, CloudWatch, Splunk, Jenkins, Postman or comparable engineering and operational tooling.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The location of the role is Pune, IN.