Senior Cloud Engineer — AWS Serverless & MongoDB

Legal & General; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus plan

Share schemes

Generous pension

Healthcare plan

25 days holiday

Electric car scheme

Job summary

Legal & General in the UK seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve cloud-native platforms using AWS serverless technologies. You will help shape technical direction, reduce complexity, and deliver secure, scalable software.

You will mentor engineers, champion clean code and testing, and collaborate across teams in an Agile environment, with flexible working options and a robust benefits package.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering with clean code and architectures.
• Proven AWS serverless delivery experience (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS).
• Deep MongoDB knowledge including aggregation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of high-quality software solutions end-to-end.
• Build and operate cloud-native, serverless apps on AWS with security and cost optimisations.
• Lead code reviews and drive continuous improvement in processes.

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

AWS serverless

MongoDB

SQL & NoSQL

TDD & CI/CD

Security-first mindset

Mentoring

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Distributed systems

Tools

Lambda

API Gateway

ECS

CloudFormation

Serverless Frameworks

MongoDB

Job description

Legal & General in the UK seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve cloud-native platforms using AWS serverless technologies. You will help shape technical direction, reduce complexity, and deliver secure, scalable software.

You will mentor engineers, champion clean code and testing, and collaborate across teams in an Agile environment, with flexible working options and a robust benefits package.