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AVP, Back End Engineer
146,000–175,000 / Year
Location
Building 300-Whippany Campus, Jefferson Park
Experience
Senior
Posted
Jul 10, 2026
Apply by
August 9, 2026
Applicants
0
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Job Description
# **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.
**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders 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.
What will you be doing?
Barclays Services LLC seeks AVP, Back End Engineer (multiple positions) in Whippany, NJ:
- Work with Relational Databases including Postgres/Oracle, NoSql databases, or MongoDB/DynamoDB.
- Dive into server-side application logic and working on integration with front-end.
- Design, develop, and test resilient and scalable solutions for any of the hybrid environments, such as Private cloud - Open Shift, Public cloud - AWS, Azure.
- Build micro services and APIs using REST/GraphQL.
- Work with a technology stack which can include any of these: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Django, C#, C++, .Net, Nodejs, Go.
- Use test-driven development to write top quality and well tested code by implementing automated tests.
- Use containerization technologies including Docker.
Minimum Salary: $146,000.00 per year
Maximum Salary: $175,000.00 per year
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
This position is eligible for an incentive award.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and improve software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages and frameworks.
- Ensure code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and solution strategies.
- Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
- Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure code design, readability, and reliability.
- Lead a team or guide team members through structured assignments and complex tasks.
- Advise and influence decision-making and contribute to policy development.
- Manage risk and strengthen controls in relation to work done.
Skills Required
PostgresOracleNoSQLMongoDBDynamoDBJavaSpring BootPythonDjangoC#C++.NetNodejsGoRESTGraphQLDockerAWSAzureOpenShiftMicroservicesAPIsTest-driven developmentAutomated testingLeadershipCollaborationCommunicationProblem solvingInfluenceCoachingStrategic thinking
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Paid leave
- Incentive award
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