Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Join us as a Software Engineer

• In your new role, you\xe2\x80\x99ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• We\xe2\x80\x99ll look to you to design and engineer software focusing on the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• It\xe2\x80\x99s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career as you develop the discipline of software engineering across the business
• This role is available at associate level

What you\'ll do

As a Software Engineer, you\xe2\x80\x99ll design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be working within a feature team and using 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\xe2\x80\x99ll also be:

• Producing high quality software 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 you\'ll need

We\'re looking for someone with a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. You\'ll need experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis, as well as experience of designing and implementing APIs. In addition, you\'ll have experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also have experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking or stubbing and unit testing tools. Ideally, you\xe2\x80\x99ll also have a background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also need:

• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows OS
• Experience of creating solutions using Bash or Python
• Experience of infrastructure automation
• An understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• A good understanding of networking technologies and protocols, such as TCP or IP, DNS, HTTP and SSH
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies
• Knowledge of relational, in-memory, distributed and NoSQL databases