Java Engineer, Nationwide House (Swindon) / 1 Threadneedle Street (London)

Description

As a Software Engineer you will be working with project and application support teams building and maintaining a variety of platforms to provide secure, reliable business solutions. You will be involved at all stages from proof of concept, design, build and test through to live support. Ongoing training is important and the opportunity to increase or acquire new skills in the technologies used is encouraged.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Nationwide House, Swindon office or our London, Treadneedle Street office. There will be the expectation to go to London, Threadneedle Street roughly once a month if based out of Swindon. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

To build this new vision we are looking to recruit Engineers who have proven experience in coding, who are agile thinkers and ready to help us learn new technologies and architectures. For us, it’s not just about having the right technical background, you need to have an open mind, be able to work collaboratively and be driven to learn and succeed.

You’ll be at the frontline, delivering our vision to our members by designing, building, and testing systems used to process millions of transactions every day. You’ll be given the opportunity to work with the most up-to-date technologies to deliver real change.

You’ll make valuable contributions through developing solutions in a highly collaborative environment and implementing them with your team. With end-to-end ownership, development and deployment you’ll be given a platform to lead by example.

That’s our mindset and our culture: we want you to nurture and value proactive habits and to develop contacts and relationships, so things are done faster and more efficiently. We’ll expect you to get stuck in and have a go, knowing that sometimes to fail fast is to learn fast.

You may be required to work on-call, although on-call allocations are spread across teams and occur infrequently.

About you

We are looking for someone who has:

Working experience programming in Java
Appreciation of Agile and/or DevOps driven environments.
Understanding of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
The ability and mindset to quickly learn, and be excited by, new and emerging technologies.
Working experience with Spring Boot is a must
Appreciation and understanding of Containerisation and/or Container Orchestration tools
Knowledge of one of the following: Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, N-Tier, Event Streaming or Microservices
Knowledge of messaging patterns

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
Life assurance worth 8x your salary
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
Access to an annual performance related bonus
Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.