As an Associate Engineer in the Digital team, you will collaborate to contribute within your squad. You’ll work alongside other Engineers, Designers, Architects, Craft Specialists, Principal Engineers, and key stakeholders around the bank to ensure we:

• Deliver amazing new digital experiences for our customers

• Build in-line with modern best practices

• Comply with our standards and policies

• Avoid technical debt

• Support and role model agreed work practices

• Contribute to sprint goals that align with delivery, customer, and strategic objectives

This role is primarily focused on hands-on engineering, collaboration, and technical excellence. You will contribute to shaping the technical direction of your squad and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Team Contribution

• Assist in code reviews and ensure adherence to software engineering best practices

• Engage in discussions to understand requirements and contribute to technical solutions with guidance from senior engineers

• Design, develop, and test new product features with support from senior engineers, aiming to minimise bugs

• Actively participate in Agile software development practices, including sprint planning and retrospectives

• Create, review, and maintain technical documentation

Technical Expertise

• Assist in conducting POCs to research and identify optimal solutions

• Gain experience with tools like Jira and Confluence

• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving production incidents under the guidance of senior engineers

• Work collaboratively with team members and stakeholders, incorporating feedback to improve solutions, participate in Unit Testing

• Engage in continuous learning and development to enhance technical skills and knowledge and actively seek opportunities for professional growth

• Uses existing education and skills to perform basic coding in allocated application or domain

• Uses approved AI tools responsibly for learning support, validating outputs and complying with data, privacy, and security standards

Planning and Collaboration

• Work collaboratively with the team and stakeholders, incorporating feedback when appropriate

• Demonstrate passion and energy to encourage enthusiasm among the team in bringing projects to life

• Be adaptable and flexible to changes in priorities and demands

• Assist in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining applications with a focus on high availability and performance

• Help debug, resolve, and support technical problems that arise

• Produce relevant documentation throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Team Culture

• Promote a positive culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Encourage open communication and respectful debate

• Build on process improvements, both technical and ways of working

• Advocate for automation and modern engineering practices

• Share knowledge and support the growth of your peers

Experience

• Exposure to Kotlin OR Swift, with a willingness
  to learn others.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies

• Good communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

• A strong desire to learn and grow within the role

Skills and Knowledge

• Familiarity with Agile development practices

• Exposure to tools like Jira and Confluence

• Familiarity with unit testing practices and tools

• Basic understanding of technologies such as React, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Java, Git, Docker, and, if mobile development, Kotlin and Swift, with a willingness to learn others

• Understands and can discuss terminology, concepts, principles and issues related to work

• Learns about existing tools, resources, and processes in a self‑managed way through independent exploration and self‑directed learning.

Capabilities