Tesco Bank

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 9th January 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 Insurance & Money Services.  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.

Interviews

Interviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date.