Software Engineer - Integration & APIs

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About the role

BT is going through a transformation journey to move from it’s legacy technology stacks onto new strategic platforms; this is critical to our future success. This role will be critical to the further enablement of that transformation.

In this role, you will lead the design and build of a new AI-based Integration platform bringing together other existing platforms. The aim is to bring unified DevSecOps experience across our core platforms increasing delivery speed, productivity and adoption of APIs and Microservices enabling migration of customers and the closure of legacy.

What you’ll be doing

• Accountable for leading on the design, build and delivery of a new integration platform for BT.
• Partners with a range of internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues, update on progress and achieve benefits.
• Lead a small team (potential mix of FTE and sub-con) in building the BT integration platforms.
• Accountable for the quality of design and build and ensuring the secure build of the platform.
• Overseeing the team's work and ensuring the work is completed to a suitable standard.
• Supporting the team with both hands-on development and giving guidance and mentoring.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Hands-on development experience (ideally in integration-related technologies)
• Experience working with API Gateway technologies (Kong or APIGEE preferred)
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools (Jenkins, Git, etc.).
• Experience in RESTful API design and implementation.
• Proficiency in Java, preferably with Spring Boot.
• Cloud administration skills (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Full-stack development experience (pref. React/Angular).
• Typescript/Pulumi, Terraform experience.
• Cloud certifications.
• Software development experience using LLMs or AI.

Our Package

• An annual on-target bonus of 10% (personal and company multipliers).
• BT Pension scheme: minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.
• EE Broadband – from £10/month for 150Mb and £20 for 900Mb – lower than any other provider.
• EE Mobile – Save 50% on Mobile & SIM-only plans or pay just £10/month for an EE SIM.
• EE TV – Enjoy premium content like Netflix and TNT Sports, with the flexibility to swap packages monthly, starting from just £10/month.
• Combine Broadband, TV, and Mobile from just £30/month and unlock extra savings when you take both Broadband and Mobile.
• There’s also great support for working parents, including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
• Volunteering days so that you can give back to your local community.
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.