Software Engineer |OutSystems|

Job description
General information

Job Title

Software Engineer (OutSystems)

Ref #

+113

Location

Southampton Office

Department

Engineering

Business Area

Engineering

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

27-0+-2024

Closing date

04-10-2024

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary – From £38,000 + annual bonus & benefits.

Location – Southampton (Whiteley), Permanent

Office Attendance- Our roles are hybrid, however you should be able to travel to our Southampton office at least 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date - Applications close Friday the 25th October at 5pm.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We’re looking for an experienced OutSystems Software Engineer to join our Insurance Money Services team.
• Technical Challenges: The role involves designing, building, testing, supporting, and delivering our online claims applications, deployed on OutSystems.
• Subject Matter Expertise: You will act as a subject matter expert within Claims Engineering allowing you to showcase and further develop your own expertise.
• Collaborative Environment: We encourage engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve their teams and the wider engineering community creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Influence on Direction: You will have the opportunity to set the direction with the Senior and Lead Engineers and drive through service improvements, features, and changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.

What You’ll Be Doing
• Work closely with our internal stakeholders and third party suppliers
• Analyse systems to re-engineer, update or add new features
• Understand business requirements, documenting when required, including creating user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Design system changes according to modular software design principles
• Write high-quality code and unit tests, according to defined standards
• Complete work according to agreed commitments
• Review work produced by other members of the team
• Analyse and identify the root causes of problems and defects and design suitable fixes
• Produce documentation describing new and existing systems

We Need You To Have
• Extensive experience of software development experience
• Extensive recent experience showing the ability to analyse, design, develop, deploy and manage applications in OutSystems using:
• Service Studio
• LifeTime
• Service Center
• Proficiency in web-based languages - HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Good understanding of relational databases / SQL
• Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies

And if you have any of these, even better.
• Insurance or other financial services background
• Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts
• OutSystems Traditional Web Developer certification (or similar)
• Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints
• Writing Swagger/YAML specifications
• IBMi RPG software development experience

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s In It For You
• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

Role Alignment

Following the announcement regarding Tesco's strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our insurance and money services business and will remain with Tesco.

Interviews

Interviews are expected to be held from 14th October.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.

It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.