Senior Software Engineer: AI & Engineering Excellence

Hargreaves Lansdown group; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hargreaves Lansdown in Bristol is seeking two Senior Software Engineers to join our Technical Excellence Team. You will deliver high-quality, well-engineered software while elevating coding standards across the wider organisation.

You will be recognised as a technical expert, mentor peers, and contribute to successful delivery outcomes through collaboration and knowledge sharing. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will influence technical direction at squad level, champion secure coding

Qualifications

• Writes high‑quality, well‑engineered software that adheres to standards.
• Mentors peers and promotes knowledge sharing within the squad.
• Drives secure coding practices and test coverage.
• Collaborates across squads to deliver features that meet requirements.
• Contributes to engineering excellence and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for writing high quality code adhering to corporate & regulatory standards, delivered in a timely manner, without supervision
• Ensuring the squad actively manages and remediates any vulnerabilities
• Actively contribute to the overall output of the team (e.g. through knowledge sharing, mentoring, etc.)
• Can act as a low-level design authority - uses their deep knowledge of a system to drive good code-level design and assist Technical Leads in software design stages
• Work collaboratively with the squad to help deliver new features for the product in line with requirements
• D rives awareness of current secure coding practices and ensure code produced is in line with these within the squad
• Review other software engineers code, as well agentic produced, to ensure conformance with established standards
• Responsible for developing and evidencing automated tests alongside code produced
• Responsible for documenting all solutions produced, using Confluence, to agreed team standards, socialising and cascading where appropriate.
• Habitually commit code to high standards
• Ensure existing and newly developed solutions are reliable, secure, performant and maintainable
• Cultivate strong working relationships both within the Digital department and wider within Hargreaves Lansdown. Actively participate in schemes designed to support the development squad
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by product team, engineering squads and focused around automation and agentic AI solutions.
• Develop both technical and interpersonal skills (equally weighted)
• Willingly participate in essential administrative tasks
• Identify inefficiencies in our current software engineering processes and/or apps to establish where improvements can be made in order to improve productivity/efficiency.
• Accurately predict development timescales
• Technically and personally support other squad members

Skills

Mentoring

Code quality

Collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Confluence

Job description

Hargreaves Lansdown in Bristol is seeking two Senior Software Engineers to join our Technical Excellence Team. You will deliver high-quality, well-engineered software while elevating coding standards across the wider organisation.

You will be recognised as a technical expert, mentor peers, and contribute to successful delivery outcomes through collaboration and knowledge sharing. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will influence technical direction at squad level, champion secure coding