Senior Software Engineer Full Stack Developer

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer Full Stack Developer at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.  

To be successful as a Senior Software Engineer Full Stack Developer, you should have experience with:

• Strong experience as a Full Stack Engineer building cloud native applications using Java, Spring Boot, and modern architecture.
• Strong experience with AI-assisted developer tools such as GitLab Duo, GitHub Copilot, and Claude to enhance productivity, code quality, and development workflows.
• Proficient in developing and consuming REST APIs, with hands on experience in CI/CD, Git, SonarQube, and Wiz.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and scalable system design.
• Build features across UI, APIs, and data layers using Java 21+, Spring Boot 3.x, Angular and React/Next.js, ensuring clean integration and adherence to standards.
• Good knowledge of monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting tools.
• Ensure production ready, observable, and resilient releases, leveraging Kafka and API standards (OpenAPI/TypeSpec).
• Design, develop, test, and deliver end to end full stack solutions with strong focus on quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Apply engineering best practices and maintain high code quality through reviews and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, BAs, and engineers to define requirements and assess feasibility.
• Support sprint planning and estimation, and own delivery of committed work end to end.
• Drive definition of done, including unit/integration testing (JUnit 5, Cucumber BDD) and strong nonfunctional quality standards.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in financial services/technology.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience in undertaking spec driven development using AI Dev agents.
• Knowledge of Python skills with experience in GenAI and agentic frameworks.
• Good understanding of LLMs, AI Agents, NLP, and Conversational AI.
• Proven expertise in prompt engineering and optimization.
• Design and deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions.
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams.
• Promote code quality, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Follow secure coding and testing best practices.
• Apply observability practices (latency, cost, quality monitoring).
• Drive cybersecurity practices including risk assessment, controls, and awareness.
• Manage incidents and adopt emerging security solutions 

You may be assessed on 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.

This role is based in Chennai.

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, participate in code reviews, and promote 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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide 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, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order 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.