Staff Software Engineer

A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing a fintech culture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and corporate clients. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy. 

Our platform & infrastructure team provide the hardened, high-velocity foundations that allow our product teams to ship code to production that moves billions of pounds with total confidence. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Platform team, you are a builder and multiplier for how our engineering organisation ships software. This is a high-impact execution role where you’ll lead wide-ranging deliverables, improve the developer experience, and help set strong engineering defaults, while still staying hands-on with product and delivery colleagues.

To be successful as a Staff Software Engineer you should have experience with;

• Extensive experience building complex, scalable systems. You’ve seen things break at scale, and worked to resolve issues in a sustainable way.
• Detailed command of Cloud, Kubernetes, and the broader CNCF ecosystem
• A polyglot mindset – expertise of at least two languages (e.g., Rust, Go, Kotlin) and a "right tool for the job" philosophy

Some other highly valued skills may include;

• Ability to bring both technical and non-technical stakeholders on the journey, explaining complex technical trade-offs to those who might not know what a "service mesh" is
• Product thinking – you treat the platform as a product, with fellow engineers as your customers
• Good experience of collaboration with various stakeholders such as Product Managers

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 successful candidate will be based in London. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office-based presence expected.