Technology Consultant

Business Unit: Products & Channels
Salary range: £72,800 - £97,000 per annum  DOE + red-hot benefits
Location:  UK Hybrid with travel to our Glasgow Hub when required. 
Contract type: Permanent

Live to inspire change. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

Web Development (Secure Sites) is responsible for the modernisation and digitisation of customer and staff experiences using a wide range of Web technologies. Our systems are designed to be accessible, efficient & engaging across several platforms: Desktop, Mobile & Tablet.

What you’ll be doing

• Assess & estimate new work requests covering multiple systems and sub-systems.
• Build & enhance features within new & existing projects, complete with unit & automation tests achieving effective code coverage.
• Create & control contributions to semantically versioned common code libraries.
• Deploy applications using continuous integration & deployment systems including the configuration & administration of these systems.
• Educate & coach more junior members of the team during pair programming, code reviews and within structured teaching sessions.
• Fix bugs & identity source, documenting both causes & solutions, to reduce reoccurrence and enhance colleague awareness.
• Generate & implement new development approaches & architectural innovations.
• Help with production releases & incident responses across areas, occasionally out of hours.
• Improve, optimise & modernise our tech stack, leveraging your previous experience to reduce tech debt & promote positive patterns!

We need you to have

• An extensive and successful proven track record in a Senior Developer role with SME experience programming large scale applications using Typescript.
• SME development experience of single page Web applications frameworks (e.g. React or alternatives: Angular, Vue, Svelte, SolidJS).
• Demonstrable experience of developing unit, integration & automation tests using JS Web test frameworks (e.g. Vitest/Jest, Playwright/Cypress).
• In depth experience of communicating with Microservice REST APIs and a deep understanding of Networking/HTTP protocols.
• Protecting against potential security vulnerabilities and familiarity with best practice (e.g. OWASP).
• Extensive experience educating & enforcing best practice software development principles, e.g. DRY, KISS, SOLID.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Cloud based development & hosting, e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, Serverless Computing.
• Developer tools programming using efficient frameworks & languages, e.g. Bun, Deno, Rust.
• Financial Industry regulations, structures & services.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.