Software Engineering Specialist

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Software Engineering Specialist

Job Req ID: 16700

Posting Date: 21-May-2024

Function: Engineering

Location: RMZ Ecoworld, Devarabeesanahal, Bengaluru, India

Salary: Competitive

Why this job matters

The successful candidate will provide expert level hands on Flutter design and development across multiple systems in the Digital Engineering area with specific responsibility to ensure that solutions are designed to meet the business and customer needs, matching expectations for quality and reliability.

You will participate in the delivery and implementation of both in-house and external solutions via Agile delivery to ensure solutions are compliant with the design and development standards and are fit-for-purpose.

Your responsibility will be to support the achievement of team service level targets by owning the completion of all assigned work requests, including testing, quality checking and delivering all assigned tasks within the agreed time-scales.

You will maximise the business' potential of BT/EE apps and sites as the most efficient sales and service channel. This will be demonstrated through efficiency and quality of coding and in harnessing new internet and app technologies.

What you’ll be doing

 Driving the technical standards, culture and best practice for the engineers in the squad and the wider business

 Working with the wider engineering community within and outside of BT to contribute to our Flutter frameworks and tooling

 Hands on development of FE code in React, NextJS, GraphQL and other frameworks

 Code reviews for the squads output

 Day to day line management, Recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for the front-end squad engineers, helping build both their careers and BT’s front-end capability

 Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles

 Working with the Product Owners, Architecture and test from across the group on solution architecture for your squads deliveries

 Maintain and grow relationships with strategic external partners and open source projects to influence their roadmaps and continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities

 Defining the monitoring strategy and inlife support for your team’s journeys including being part of an oncall rota

 Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant

 Representing BT within the wider tech community helping communicate your own and the departments achievements

Skills and Experience

 Write code from an approved requirement and design in accordance with the expected delivery timeframe and associated quality standards

 Write unit tests and other automated tests

 Peer review software written by team members

 Contribute to tribe improvement initiatives

 Contribute to tribe ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, demo, retrospective)

 Drive forward items from the tribe improvement initiatives

 Contribute to technical direction and strategy of the tribe

 Contribute to technical responses of impact assessments for business propositions

 Investigation and resolution of production incidents

 Deliver tooling improvements for the delivery pipeline

 Technical design of solutions to business requirements

 Engage / influence the roadmap of our vendors’ products

 Contribute to internal and external conferences/meetups

 Experience of working within a true ‘DevOps’ environment, involving automated testing, continuous delivery practices and a high level of collaboration

 Experience of using Jenkins and tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket

 Experience of a range of relevant technical languages from Dart (Flutter), Objective C and Swift (iOS), to Android (Java) and Kotlin development.

 Software design and development experience integrated with web services. Experience with RESTful Services and OpenAPI advantageous.

 Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair Programming etc.

 Have a good knowledge of unit testing frameworks and supporting technologies.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.