PwC Hiring for Web Software Engineer Job at Birmingham, England Full Time

Software Engineer

As part of PwC’s global strategy, The New Equation, we’re investing significantly in skills, capabilities and technologies to address the breadth and complexity of the challenges that our clients face with their businesses and in society. One of our responses to this was establishing Tech Central, a technology focused function working alongside other PwC teams.

Tech Central is rapidly growing and the environment that our people work in is fueled by ingenuity, collaboration and innovation. Our people are skilled and passionate about the work they do. As part of the team you’ll experience an environment consisting of a wide range of technologies with ample room for you to learn, grow and innovate.

About the team

Building technology assets is one of our top priorities in Tech Central, and you will be part of a digital asset delivery pod at the heart of this. These pods are product specific and you’ll build technology solutions in collaboration with other technical specialists including Product Managers, Software Engineers as well as subject matter experts from wider Tech Central teams. Software Engineers working in our product pods are responsible for designing, building, testing, shipping and running of the products they are working on.

Skills and experience

• Understanding of working in an Agile Software Development model (including continuous delivery practice)

• Understanding of HTTP model, HTML, CSS, Javascript

• Knowledge in object oriented or model driven development

• Practical understanding of GIT, SQL

• Practical understanding of different types of automated tests and their role in the ensuring of the high product quality

• Understanding of security challenges in the web applications

• Very good practical knowledge of one of the languages: javascript/typescript, C#

• Basic knowledge of Azure, GCP or AWS

Skills and experience (strong in at least one of area):

• 
  Front End technologies

  • Experience in styling web applications

  • Experience in javascript/typescript development

  • Knowledge of vue.js or react.js frameworks

  • Knowledge of UX design principles and best practices

• 
  Backend technologies

  • Experience of NodeJS

  • Experience in javascript/typescript development

  • Understanding of Clean Code and SOLID principles

Skills and experience (good to have):

• Understanding of different API and Architecture Styles such as gRPC, REST, Microservices

• Object oriented programing patterns

• Integration patterns

• Proficiency in describing business requirements and technical solutions

• Docker, Kubernetes or managed services (AKS, GKE)

• SQL performance tuning

• Knowledge of distributed enterprise systems concepts and design (scalability, reliability, security)

• Good understanding of Test Pyramid principles and Shift-Left testing

• Experience in one of the testing framework: Cypress, Selenium

• Experience in one of the performance testing framework: K6, JMeter

Key responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, you’ll join our growing developer community to deliver high value, world class products and services. Responsibilities will include;

• Actively participate in a project across full software development lifecycle

• Support live systems

• Develop custom integrations for internal firm’s services

• Contribute to the development of new and existing enterprise and mission critical products considering best practices (security scalability, availability performance)

• Produce and maintain documentation

• Participate in a firm wide community of practice working groups

Not the role for you?
Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work (ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here: www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

www.pwc.com/uk/diversity