Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer / Backend/Full Stack Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Full Stack Engineer, At Barclays, our vision is clear –To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

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

• Server-side Development: Ample Python programming skills with experience building APIs, microservices architecture, anddata processing pipelines. Familiarity with Python frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI for creating robust backend services.
• Cloud Technologies: Experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), understanding of infrastructure as code, containerisation (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Full Stack Performance and monitoring: Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the entire application stack, ensuring efficient database queries and API responses on the backend. Understand and implement necessary tools for monitoring and observing systems end-to-end.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Understanding of build pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes for full stack applications. Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.

 

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Frontend Development: Understanding of JavaScript fundamentals, ES6+, closures, promises, async/await, and functional programming concepts.
• AI & Machine Learning: Familiarity working with the latest AI technologies: Gen AI chatbots and AI agents, MCP. Testing & Quality Assurance: Experience with testing methodologies and tools across the stack (pytest, unittest for Python) and ability to implement comprehensive test coverage.

 

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 your role is Glasgow/Knutsford.