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

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.

Essential Skills and experience

• Delivering products using 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

• A practical understanding of different types of automated tests and their role in ensuring a high product quality

• An understanding of security challenges in web applications

• Excellent practical knowledge of one of the following languages: javascript/typescript, C#

• Basic knowledge of Azure, GCP or AwS

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

• Backend technologies

  • Experience in .Net Core framework, .Net 6, Asp.Net Core development

  • Experience in Entity Framework

  • Understanding of Clean Code and SOLID principles

• Front End technologies

  • Experience in styling web applications

  • Knowledge of React.js framework

  • Experience in javascript/typescript development

• Experience in UI development

Preferable 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

• DDD, messaging patterns

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

• A practical understanding of a scripting language such as Python, PowerShell or Bash

• Experience in Node.js

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

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

• Experience in one of the performance testing frameworks: 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 firm wide community of practice working groups

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