Senior Software Engineer

AJ Bell Management Limited

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Pension 7%

Discretionary bonus

Share schemes

Health cash plan

Free onsite gym

Enhanced family leave

Travel and bike loan schemes

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

AJ Bell is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Operational and Regulatory Technology team in Manchester. You will work in a cross-functional squad, shaping architecture and delivering scalable services and APIs using C#/.NET Core, Mongo/SQL, and modern JS frameworks.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and a strong focus on CI/CD, TDD, and cloud-native development on AWS. Hybrid working is offered with an in-office cadence.

Qualifications

Significant commercial experience developing services and APIs with C#, .NET Core, Mongo and/or SQL.

Responsibilities

Guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products.
Consider architectural and non-functional requirements and work with the team to deliver.
Develop services and APIs with C#, .NET core and Mongo/SQL.

Skills

C# / .NET Core

Mongo / SQL

RESTful APIs

Angular / React / Vue.js

Domain-driven design

MVC

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Entity Framework Core

Web API

Test Driven Development

SCRUM / SAFe

Communication skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Mongo

SQL

Entity Framework Core

Web API

Google Protocol Buffers

RabbitMQ / SQS

Job description

We now havean exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Operational and Regulatory Technology department for an award-winning investment platform, offering a collaborative team working environment, training and excellent career progression.

Our strategy is to have a cross functional development team, with team members working on all areas of our technology stack and propositions.

What to expect:

Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and building a high-performance engineering team
Guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products
Consider architectural and non-functional requirements and work with the team to deliver
Significant commercial experience developing services and APIs with C#, .NET core, Mongo and/or SQL with techniques such as domain-driven design and MVC.
Strong technical background in web development with Angular/React/VueJs.
Experience in developing HTTP-based APIs and implementation of RESTful services with JSON.
Thorough understanding of CI/CD pipelines
Practices Test Driven Development and is comfortable with various test frameworks and concepts.
A proven record in developing scalable, highly available and highly performing middle-tier components.
Familiarisation with containerisation and tools like Docker and Kubernetes
Experience of developing, deploying, and maintaining Cloud-Based solutions on AWS
Understand principles behind highly performing web pages
Experience/Familiarity with Entity framework core.
Experience/Familiarity with communications technologies (Web API, Google Protocol Buffers) and message queues (e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS)
Agile / SCRUM / SAFe
Strong communication skills, written and verbal
Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm
E-commerce and/or financial services experience

About us:

At AJ Bell, we believe investing should feel good. Whether you're looking for an ISA, pension or dealing account, whether you want to invest with the help of a financial adviser or do it yourself, we have easy-to-use solutions to suit people from all walks of life.

We're one of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by everyone from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.

Today, over 762,000customers trust us to manage more than £121.5billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we're helping more people take control of their financial futures.

We're proud to be recognised as one of the UK's Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026, a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.

What we offer