Software Engineer - Pensions, ISA and Investments

• Build and run AWS Cloud-native applications with TypeScript and React

• Establish and maintain automated tests for the changes being implemented.

• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code.

• Upskilling - Providing coaching & mentoring to peers and more junior members of the team

• Work collaboratively with others in a cross functional team to deliver high quality digital client journeys

• Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the ways of working, quality, security, performance and CI/CD processes.

• Responsible for documenting all solutions, produced to agreed team standards.

• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team.

• Cultivate strong working relationships both within working squad and in HL as a whole.

• Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team.

• Continually develop both technical and interpersonal skills.

• Providing engineering support for existing applications when necessary.

• Professional experience with AWS, full stack TypeScript with React on the front end, IaC, CI/CD

• Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Backstop).

• Enjoys upskilling others in a team - you prioritise sharing knowledge

• Experience with integration and onboarding 3rd party vendors, meeting with vendor engineering contacts, defining integration patterns, abstracting vendor APIs/data models from internal downstream services etc.

• Experience with CI / CD and Trunk Based Development.

• Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.

• Understanding of event driven architecture.

• Experience performing code reviews.

• Experience operating within Agile framework.

• Aware of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.

• Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation.

• Advocate of excellent development practices to optimise for rapid and continuous delivery of client value.

• React Native, GraphQL and DevOps experience beneficial

Skills / Attributes

• Excellent collaborator, naturally works well with others across different disciplines in a cross functional team.

• Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills.

• Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving.

• Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative.

• Pragmatic and focused on delivery.

• Effective time management.

• Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally.

• Tenacious, with a pride in what you do.

• Have a continuous improvement mindset.

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review

• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time

• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment

• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working

• Enhanced parental leave

• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution

• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future

• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)

• Private medical insurance*

• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare

• and an Employee Assistance Programme

• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available

• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities

• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks

• Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)

• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

• dependant on role level

HL are looking for a talented full stack Senior Software Engineer to join a Pensions & Retirement product engineering team in building market leading solutions for our clients. This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £180bn billion in assets on behalf of more than 2 million UK investors. This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses., Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.