Software Engineer- Python

Job DescriptionShawbrook is a new type of specialist financial services company, combining the relentless focus on customer service and innovation you would expect from a fintech with the expertise and certainty of a bank. Shawbrook is driven by a purpose to solve complex problems that unlock opportunity for its rapidly growing customer base of over 300,000 UK consumers and businesses.Our success would not have been possible without our Team. Our people differentiate us from the competition through their deep sector knowledge, they are the life force of our business.Join Shawbrook because you:Want to help us deepen our industry sector knowledge, combining technology alongside the best banking brains.Want to build a bank for the future and be part of our digital transformation journey that will enable customers & businesses to thriveWant to continue to grow professionally. We encourage you to grow and be the best version of yourself.Care about sustainability? We want to be better for our people, environment and society.Bring passion and enjoyment to your work. You’ll work hard but you’ll have fun too.The Role:We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our core banking team. You'll be working in a collaborative and fast paced agile team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements and functionality. You'll be ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout.You’ll participate in agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, to understand business requirements, and take responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security. Working with the support team, you’ll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. This is an exciting role, bringing a new skillset to the bank, with a chance to make a real impact and help to shape the products the bank can offer for years to come.Key Role Responsibilities:What you'll be doing...Designing and writing code in Python, contributing to a range of customer facing products.Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes.Working with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of our software.Participating in agile ceremonies and backlog refinement sessions to understand business requirements, taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solutions.Documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation systemContinually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.The Person:Hands-on experience (typically 2+ years) designing and writing code in Python.Strong knowledge of software engineering tools and approaches across all lifecycle stages.Basic knowledge of security and privacy best practices as well as how to accurately monitor, and log for production systems.Experience of working with a microservice based architecture is desirable.Any experience of composable banking would be a beneficial.Reward:Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employmentFree access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health appFree access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopauseEAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and healthCycle to work schemeDiscounts on gym membershipContributory pension scheme & death in serviceYour Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.Minimum of 27 days holiday per yearOption to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday schemeDiscounts on gym membership nationwideAccess to discounts on a range of high street and online brandsCommunity support and charitable givingYour Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our successProudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done