Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as an Equities Valuations C++ Software Engineer at Barclays, where you will play a key role in enhancing the engineering quality and robustness of our strategic Equities Quant library codebase as well as working on other projects in the Equities Valuation space. You will work closely with multiple teams across Equities Valuations and Quantitative Analytics, driving improvements to a critical C++/Lua codebase.

Your focus will be on elevating engineering standards, introducing best practices, and ensuring the platform meets high standards of performance, reliability, and maintainability. This role offers a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to influence engineering practices across teams.

To be successful as an Equities Valuations C++ Software Engineer, you should have:

• Deep demonstrable programming expertise in C++, working on large-scale, complex codebases, with an extensive experience in memory analysis, performance profiling, and optimisation.
• Proven ability to influence engineering standards and drive best practices across multiple teams, i.e. automated unit and integration testing, code quality and health metrics and reporting, continuous integration and deployment, automated validation of performance and other non-functional requirements.
• Be comfortable working independently with minimal oversight, managing priorities and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with Java and integration with C++ through JNI.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including source control, CI/CD pipelines and automation, and release management.
• Experience with scripting or embedded languages such as Python, Lua, or similar.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our office in Prague.

Entry Salary: 1,884,000.00 CZK

Upper Salary: 2,301,000.00 CZK

The entry and upper salary information above includes only annual full-time equivalent base salary and represents the typical range of pay for the role. The actual pay rate will reflect the responsibility level of the role and experience level of the individual. The entry and upper salary information does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are also eligible for a suite of competitive country-specific benefits.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.