Senior Cloud Engineer – Group Protection

Legal & General; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Healthcare plan

Holiday entitlement

Electric car scheme

Employee discounts

Job summary

Legal & General (L&G) is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Group Protection technology team. You’ll shape and deliver modern cloud-based solutions, working across the full software delivery lifecycle to support our customers and colleagues.

You will mentor others, influence technical direction, and promote engineering excellence while partnering with stakeholders in a collaborative, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing software using Java and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building and supporting RESTful microservices in Spring Boot, Node.js or similar frameworks.
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies, ideally Azure, alongside infrastructure and containerisation tools.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, preferably including GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of software design principles, clean architecture and test-driven development.
• Experience working within Agile environments using approaches such as Scrum or Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving services and applications across their full lifecycle.
• Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to understand business needs and shape technical solutions.
• Designing, developing and deploying scalable applications using modern engineering practices.
• Driving quality through automated testing, observability and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leading technical problem-solving and supporting incident investigation and resolution.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers to strengthen team capability and technical excellence.
• Contributing to architectural decisions, reducing technical debt and improving platform sustainability.

Skills

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Microservices

Azure cloud

CI/CD

Agile

Tools

Spring Boot

Node.js

Job description

Legal & General (L&G) is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Group Protection technology team. You’ll shape and deliver modern cloud-based solutions, working across the full software delivery lifecycle to support our customers and colleagues.

You will mentor others, influence technical direction, and promote engineering excellence while partnering with stakeholders in a collaborative, inclusive team culture.