Software Engineering Professional

Recruiter: Seema Shivakumar

Hiring Manager: Badhrinath Srinivasan

Career Grade: E

About the role

· Specific business area: Strategic Products and Sales Tools, Business Digital

· Impact of the role: Contributes to BT Group's success by designing scalable, secure, and innovative platform designs and framework that enhance customer experience, accelerate delivery, drive business growth, and embody BT's Customer First, Challengers, Committed, Clear, and Connected behaviours.

What you’ll be doing

• Development – Manage the creation and deployment of web applications using React.js, Node.js, and Next.js, Jave Spring Boot owning the full software development
• Design Solutions – Build scalable software systems leveraging SQL/NoSQL database expertise and headless CMS platforms.
• Manage Cloud Services – Optimize and manage AWS services including ECS/Fargate, Lambda, and EKS for high-availability, cost-efficient deployments.
• Ensure Code Quality – Maintain high coding standards through structured code reviews, enforce best practices, and manage Git workflows and commit strategies.
• Collaborate and Mentor – Guide junior developers, provide technical mentorship, and work effectively with cross-functional teams including product, design, and DevOps.
• Testing and Optimization – Implement unit and automated testing strategies, monitor application performance, and drive continuous optimization for reliability and speed.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Educational Qualification: A bachelor's/master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 3+ years of experience.
• Core Technologies – Hands-on experience with React.js, Node.js, Next.js, microservices, and REST API development, Java Spring Boot.
• Database Management – Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases.
• Cloud & DevOps – Hands on experience in AWS (ECS/Fargate, Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache), CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi), and containerization.
• Collaboration & Leadership – You will communicate clearly across teams and mentor junior developers.

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.