Senior Engineer (MongoDB & AWS Serverless)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan

25 days annual holiday

Share schemes

Job summary

Legal & General in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build and evolve cloud-native platforms with a strong emphasis on AWS serverless technologies and MongoDB. You will contribute to shaping technical direction, reduce complexity, and advance secure, scalable software across teams.

You will mentor engineers, apply clean coding practices, and drive improvements in testing, deployment, and operational reliability, while aligning with SSDLC and business goals.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in modern software engineering with clean code and architecture.
• Experience delivering serverless solutions on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Deep MongoDB experience, SQL and NoSQL knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Owning the design and delivery of high-quality software solutions, end-to-end across features, services, and systems.
• Building and operating cloud-native, serverless applications on AWS with a focus on security, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Lead by example with clean code and architectural best practices aligned with SSDLC and strategy.
• Identify and address technical debt to improve long-term maintainability and operability.
• Define and influence test strategies emphasizing security, accessibility, and reliability.
• Perform and lead code reviews to raise quality and team capability.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes, tooling and ways of working.

Skills

Clean code

Clean architecture

Design patterns

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud-native application design

AWS

Serverless

MongoDB

SQL

NoSQL

Testing / TDD

CI/CD

Security

Agile

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

CloudFormation

Serverless Frameworks

Job description

• Full-time
• Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary: Permanent (UK and ROW) / Regular (US)
• L&G Business Unit: Legal & General Retail
• L&G sub Business Unit: LGI
• Primary Location: London, One Coleman Street
• Job Family: IT & Change

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Who we are

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to play a critical role in designing, building, and evolving our cloud‑native platforms. You will bring deep technical expertise, strong engineering judgement, and a customer‑first mindset to deliver secure, scalable, and high‑performing software.

As a senior member of the team, you will help shape technical direction, reduce complexity and technical debt, and continuously improve how we engineer, deliver, and operate our services. This role has a strong emphasis on AWS serverless technologies and MongoDB, operating within a modern, Agile engineering environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning the design and delivery of high‑quality software solutions, working end‑to‑end across features, services, and systems to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes
• Building and operating cloud‑native, serverless applications on AWS, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and optimised for performance and cost
• Leading by example in applying clean code, sound architectural principles, and engineering best practices that align with Legal & General’s SSDLC and technology strategy
• Actively identifying, prioritising, and addressing technical debt, ensuring long‑term maintainability, reliability, and operability of our platforms
• Defining and influencing test strategies that raise the quality bar, with a strong focus on security, accessibility, usability, resilience, and non‑functional requirements
• Performing and leading high‑quality code reviews, providing constructive feedback that improves code quality, system design, and team capability
• Driving continuous improvement in team processes, tooling, and ways of working, fostering a culture of learning, accountability, and technical excellence
• Mentoring and coaching engineers within the team, supporting their technical growth while encouraging collaboration, inclusion, and knowledge sharing
• Keeping pace with emerging cloud, data, and application technologies, identifying opportunities to adopt relevant advancements and sharing insights across the engineering community
• Ensuring solutions and engineering practices consistently support fair customer outcomes, in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience principles and Treating Customers Fairly policy

Who we're looking for:

• Strong expertise in modern software engineering, including clean code, clean architecture, design patterns, distributed systems, microservices, and cloud‑native application design
• Proven experience delivering serverless solutions on AWS, with hands‑on use of services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, and infrastructure‑as‑code using CloudFormation and serverless frameworks
• Deep, practical experience with MongoDB, including schema design, performance optimisation, and advanced aggregation pipelines, alongside a solid understanding of SQL and other NoSQL data stores
• Extensive experience building and maintaining large‑scale systems using TDD, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation, with a clear emphasis on reliability and operational excellence
• A strong security‑first mindset, with real‑world experience in secure application development, web and API security, threat modelling, and compliance in cloud environments
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems, make sound architectural decisions, navigate ambiguity, and balance immediate delivery needs with long‑term system health
• Significant experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban), contributing to effective planning, prioritisation, dependency management, and continuous improvement across teams
• A natural technical leader and communicator who can mentor others, facilitate technical discussions, collaborate effectively with non‑technical stakeholders, and positively influence team culture and outcomes

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

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Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part‑time and job shares.Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.