Software Engineer, PySpark

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• We’ll look to you to engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career as you develop the discipline of software engineering across the business
• We're offering this role at senior analyst level

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting and exceeding the anticipated load, performance and availability volumes, including load balancing, performance testing and benchmarking. You’ll be working within a feature team and using extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

Additionally, you’ll be collaborating with principal engineers and domain architects to understand the wider platform, domain and enterprise agendas and support the realisation of these. And, you’ll make sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management.

You’ll also be:

• Producing software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams that are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Coding experience in PySpark
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance