Senior Full Stack Engineer

Join us as a Senior Full Stack Developer, where you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade applications using Java, Spring Framework, and modern open-source technologies. You’ll lead the development of highly responsive user interfaces with Angular, React, and React Native, while delivering secure, resilient microservices using Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, OAuth2, and JWT. You’ll also benefit from working within a collaborative engineering environment, leveraging CI/CD and DevOps best practices with tools like GitLab or Jenkins, alongside observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to ensure high performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Full Stack Developer using Java, Spring Framework, and open-source technologies to build enterprise-grade applications. In-depth knowledge and extensive experience on UI development with a focus on Angular/React JS, React Native.
• Considerable experience building microservices using RESTful APIs, Spring Boot, Spring Security, OAuth2, and JWT, with a focus on scalability, security, and resiliency.
• Experience with DevOps/CI/CD and observability tooling (GitLab or Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Additional Highly Valued Skills

• Ability to mentor engineers, drive engineering standards, influence architectural decisions, and operate effectively in large-scale, regulated enterprise environments.
• Practical exposure to Generative AI and/or Agentic AI, including integrating LLM-based capabilities into applications or engineering workflows.
• Ample knowledge of Private Banking products, client journeys, and regulatory landscape across UK and international markets, applied to solution shaping and delivery.

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

This role will be based in our Glasgow office.

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, participation in code reviews, and promotion of 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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalated breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short- and long-term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards.
• As an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within own discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi-year assignments, train and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Show comprehensive understanding of organisational functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support, to keep up to speed on business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives; in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and incorporate the outcomes of extensive research into problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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.