Lead Full Stack Engineer

As a Lead Full Stack Engineer at Barclays, you will play a pivotal role in driving the evolution of the API First digital strategy, facilitating innovation and operational excellence. Your main responsibility will be to utilize cutting-edge technology to develop and manage robust, scalable, and secure APIs that ensure the seamless delivery of digital solutions. To excel in this position, you must possess advanced proficiency in full-stack development, with hands-on experience in Core Java, JPA/Hibernate, Spring framework, and enterprise caching solutions. Additionally, you should have a strong grasp of Spring ecosystem technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring-JMS, and Spring-Data. Your demonstrated ability to build secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable enterprise applications across the entire technology stack will be crucial. Moreover, you should be well-versed in RESTful API development and consumption, with practical implementation of OpenAPI/Swagger specifications. Hands-on experience in implementing API security protocols and authentication mechanisms like OAuth2, JWT, and mTLS is essential. Your expertise in both relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL database technologies, along with practical coding experience in event-driven architecture patterns and microservices, will be highly beneficial. In this role, your strong technical leadership capabilities will be put to use as you mentor junior developers and conduct effective code reviews. You will also enforce code quality using tools like SonarQube and Veracode to ensure high standards are maintained. Proficiency with developer tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus, Git, and CI/CD pipelines is expected, along with hands-on experience with enterprise message broker platforms like Kafka. Additionally, you should have a solid understanding of Agile, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and CI/CD practices. Familiarity with cloud platforms such as OpenShift Enterprise, AWS, and cloud-native application development is advantageous. Knowledge of testing methodologies like TDD, BDD, and automated testing frameworks is also required, along with effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate within a team. Some other valuable skills for this role include experience with modern frontend technologies like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and frameworks such as Angular or React. Advanced SQL optimization skills, performance tuning experience with Oracle or similar RDBMS, and the ability to implement API client SDKs and developer-focused documentation are appreciated. Troubleshooting capabilities for diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues at the code level, experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and knowledge of ITIL-based release and change management processes are also beneficial. In summary, as a Lead Full Stack Engineer at Barclays, you will be at the forefront of shaping the digital strategy through innovative API development, secure coding practices, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet business objectives and customer needs.,