Specialist Software engineer -Front end

Responsibilities

Technical Capabilities:

Required:

Quality: Demonstrates understanding of quality standards and processes. Shows consideration for maintainability and testability.

Problem Solving: Applies logical thinking / hypothesis when investigating issues and carefully applies basic fault-finding techniques.

Security: Awareness of company security principles and understands the importance of applying security controls.

Incremental Value Delivery: Demonstrates judgement around the relative priority of tasks.

Testing: Demonstrates a knowledge of different types of testing techniques.

Test Design & Architecture: Highlights potential duplication and has a high-level awareness of test architecture, frameworks and tooling.

Desired:

Quality: Creates tested production-ready output without assistance (subject to peer review) and considers non-functional elements e.g. performance, usability, security.

Problem Solving: Competently diagnoses issues across multiple systems using advanced fault-finding concepts and feeds information back into team to foster improvement.

Security: Ensures security is considered in requirements and helps evolve security practices.

Incremental Value Delivery: Breaks down work to deliver value early by extracting deliverable components from complex requirements while maximizing work not done.

Testing: Uses risk-based testing techniques when planning testing approach considering activities across teams. Feeds insights back into team to foster improvement.

Test Design & Architecture: Competent to design tests at all levels of the testing pyramid and considers simplicity, extensibility and cost of maintenance.

Advanced:

Quality: Creates mechanisms which measure and ensure quality standards are followed and seeks to evolve standards to fill gaps and challenge low-value elements.

Problem Solving: Able to step in to unfamiliar projects to assist with complex issues. Defines and ensures observability standards and tooling to evolve system reliability.

Testing: Actively analyses data to improve test approach and planning. Innovates in testing areas, pragmatically prioritising high-value tests and ensures constant evolution of test suites.

Test Design & Architecture: Architects for scale and performance and effectively challenges over/under engineering to balance design and delivery.

Desired Previous Experience:

Use of the following technologies; .NET 6+/C#, SQL (Ideally Oracle PL/SQL), Responsive UI, Playwright/Selenium, Postman/Bruno

Use of source control, Git preferred

Non-functional testing e.g. load testing, security, UX/AX

Continuous integration, continuous delivery and test automation approaches

Delivering software as part of a team through all phases of the development cycle

Desirable Education and Technical Ability:

Multiple years of relevant professional experience or relevant qualification to degree level

IT Applications:

Good IT literacy for all MS office products

Profile required

Technical Capabilities:

Required:

Quality: Demonstrates understanding of quality standards and processes. Shows consideration for maintainability and testability.

Problem Solving: Applies logical thinking / hypothesis when investigating issues and carefully applies basic fault-finding techniques.

Security: Awareness of company security principles and understands the importance of applying security controls.

Incremental Value Delivery: Demonstrates judgement around the relative priority of tasks.

Testing: Demonstrates a knowledge of different types of testing techniques.

Test Design & Architecture: Highlights potential duplication and has a high-level awareness of test architecture, frameworks and tooling.

Desired:

Quality: Creates tested production-ready output without assistance (subject to peer review) and considers non-functional elements e.g. performance, usability, security.

Problem Solving: Competently diagnoses issues across multiple systems using advanced fault-finding concepts and feeds information back into team to foster improvement.

Security: Ensures security is considered in requirements and helps evolve security practices.

Incremental Value Delivery: Breaks down work to deliver value early by extracting deliverable components from complex requirements while maximizing work not done.

Testing: Uses risk-based testing techniques when planning testing approach considering activities across teams. Feeds insights back into team to foster improvement.

Test Design & Architecture: Competent to design tests at all levels of the testing pyramid and considers simplicity, extensibility and cost of maintenance.

Advanced:

Quality: Creates mechanisms which measure and ensure quality standards are followed and seeks to evolve standards to fill gaps and challenge low-value elements.

Problem Solving: Able to step in to unfamiliar projects to assist with complex issues. Defines and ensures observability standards and tooling to evolve system reliability.

Testing: Actively analyses data to improve test approach and planning. Innovates in testing areas, pragmatically prioritising high-value tests and ensures constant evolution of test suites.

Test Design & Architecture: Architects for scale and performance and effectively challenges over/under engineering to balance design and delivery.

Desired Previous Experience:

Use of the following technologies; .NET 6+/C#, SQL (Ideally Oracle PL/SQL), Responsive UI, Playwright/Selenium, Postman/Bruno

Use of source control, Git preferred

Non-functional testing e.g. load testing, security, UX/AX

Continuous integration, continuous delivery and test automation approaches

Delivering software as part of a team through all phases of the development cycle

Desirable Education and Technical Ability:

Multiple years of relevant professional experience or relevant qualification to degree level

IT Applications:

Good IT literacy for all MS office products

Why join us

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.

We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents , regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.