Senior Software Engineer - Transfers

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Transfers Tribe, you’ll focus on solving technical problems at scale, reducing systemic risk, and enabling teams to deliver faster without compromising stability, security, or regulatory compliance. You will work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Principal Engineers, Architecture, and Platform teams within an end-to-end, product-led delivery model., Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Lead technical discovery for initiatives, shaping solution options, trade-offs, and technical risk assessments.
• Identify and proactively reduce system-level and cross-team technical risks, including performance, operability, and data integrity.

Engineering & Problem Solving

• Solve complex technical problems across event-driven flows, integrations, orchestration, and data consistency.
• Drive improvements in testability, observability, deployment safety, and recovery across Transfers systems.

Technical Leadership & Enablement

• Act as a technical mentor and coach to mid-level and junior engineers, raising the technical bar across teams.
• Partner with Engineering Managers to enable sustainable, predictable delivery.

Collaboration & Influence

• Work closely with Product, Operations, Architecture, and Platform teams to ensure solutions are fit for live service., * Transfers systems are simpler, more resilient, and easier to change, with fewer incidents and faster recovery.
• Technical risks are surfaced and addressed early, enabling predictable delivery.

Interview Process

3 Stage Interview

Stage 1 - Discussion with our Hiring Manager (30 mins):

A chance to talk with our Hiring Manager in more detail about the role, our tech stack and some of the problems we solve every day. Here, we’ll dig a bit more into some of your experiences, understand the processes you’re familiar with and the technologies you’ve used to deliver end user value.

Stage 2 - Technical (75 mins):

For the technical part, we’d like you to sit down with some of your potential peers to work through a technical solution. We’ll be looking together at where a sample piece of code has issues and how we might address them.

Stage 3 - Culture Fit (30 mins):

In our Cultural Fit interview, we’ll be looking to learn more about your past experiences, what keeps you motivated, where we may be able to help you improve further, key decisions you’ve helped to make and issues you’ve resolved.

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong Java software engineering background with the ability to engage on architecture decisions. We use Java 21 and Spring Boot paired with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Experience with AWS and event-driven architectures.
• Experience delivering product-led, agile software.
• Strong stakeholder management across Product, Operations, and Engineering.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A keen focus on quality and security, baking testing and scanning into CI/CD pipelines.

Desirable

• Experience in financial services
• Familiarity with AWS, Java, and integration-heavy platforms.
• Experience improving operational resilience and throughput via system redesign and automation.
• Experience with agent-first organisations

About HL And The Opportunity We’re building the next generation platform for one of the UK’s largest financial services companies, trusted by over 2 million clients and managing c.£150 billion in assets. You will contribute in expanding our new capabilities that will enable our clients to seamlessly transfer in (and out) financial products like SIPPs and ISAs. Be part of HL’s future. Be part of the future of investing. Shape it with us.