Senior Software Engineer - Active Savings

Hargreaves Lansdown; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment platform in Bristol is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join their Active Savings product development team. The role involves building market leading solutions, ensuring system reliability, and advocating for excellent development practices. Candidates should have extensive experience with Java, Springboot, and CI/CD processes. This position offers a flexible working environment and numerous benefits.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Pension scheme up to 11%

Private medical insurance

Wellness coach sessions

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience with Java 11+, Springboot, RDBMS and SQL.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools and practices.
• Experience with CI/CD and Trunk Based Development.
• Advocate for observability, experienced in monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital client journeys.
• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code.
• Create and maintain automated tests for all changes.
• Document all solutions according to team standards.

Skills

Java 11+

Springboot

RDBMS

SQL

CI/CD

Trunk Based Development

Monitoring

Logging

Tracing

Collaborative code reviews

Technical documentation

Agile framework

Tools

Cucumber

Selenium

Jenkins

Oracle

Gradle

Linux

Windows

Job description

Excited to grow your career? Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

HL are looking for a talented full stack Senior Software Engineer to join our Active Savings product development team in building market leading solutions for our clients. The Savings application allows HL clients to easily deposit cash into a selection of savings accounts offered by partner banks. It is a bespoke development project with several functional sub-components.

This is an opportunity to join the UK’s number one investment services company, managing over £149.7 billion in assets for more than 1.86 million UK investors. As a secure, and highly respected brand, HL offers you the chance to make a genuine impact within one of the UK's most innovative and digitally focused businesses.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital client journeys
• Help drive our future technical direction to enable us to deliver modern, scalable, secure and highly performant application
• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code
• Create and maintain automated tests for all changes
• Document all solutions according to team standards
• Provide engineering support and maintenance for existing applications.
• Continuously develop your own technical and interpersonal skills, with a willingness to learn and adopt new technologies and techniques.
• Provide coaching & mentoring to peers and junior members of the team
• Advocate for continuous improvement in ways of working, quality, security, performance, and CI/CD processes.
• Engage in working groups and communities of practice to support the development team

About You

• Extensive professional experience with Java 11+, Springboot, RDBMS and SQL
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools and practices
• Experience with CI/CD and Trunk Based Development
• Advocate for observability, experienced in monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure system reliability and performance
• Awareness of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements
• Proficient in collaborative code reviews, technical documentation, and advocating for excellent development practices to optimize for rapid and continuous delivery of client value within an Agile framework
• Collaborates effectively with others across different disciplines in a cross functional team
• Excellent team skills, demonstrating a flexible approach to ideas: strongly formed but actively soliciting team input
• Clear communication, both written and verbal, with good numerical skills
• Logical, analytical and methodical approach to problem solving
• Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative
• Pragmatic and focused on delivery
• Efficient time management, with the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and balance multiple responsibilities
• Willingness to learn and a growth mindset, with a desire to develop professionally
• Enjoys coaching and guiding others in a team and prioritizes sharing knowledge.
• Persistent, with a pride in what you do

Nice To Have

• A background in finance/banking
• Experience with the design and implementation of Microservices and RESTful APIs, including structuring, documenting, versioning and testing
• Understanding of TDD and BDD
• Test automation with Cucumber and Selenium
• Frontend Web development, HTML, CSS
• Knowledge of using JIRA and other Atlassian products

Tech Stack

• Java / Springboot / Gradle / HTML / Oracle / MyBatis
• Cucumber / Selenium / RestAssured / Jenkins
• Linux / Windows

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus * and annual pay review
• 25 days * holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.