Senior Software Engineer - Investment Growth

Hargreaves Lansdown group; Eastbourne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday + Christmas closure

Additional holiday offer

Flexible working options (hybrid)

Private medical insurance

Pension up to 11%

Life insurance

Health care cash plans

Wellbeing and volunteering days

Job summary

Hargreaves Lansdown in Bristol, the UK's number one investment platform, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on Investment Growth product teams, building market-leading solutions for clients.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, design AWS-native applications with TypeScript/React, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, and documentation. This is a hybrid role with a focus on delivering secure, scalable client journeys.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience with TypeScript, React and Node, deployed on AWS using IaC tools such as Terraform.
• Strong experience working in a truly full-stack role, including DevOps.
• React Native experience would be very beneficial.
• PHP or Java experience would be beneficial.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Backstop, Playwright).
• Experience with CI/CD and trunk-based development.
• Experience with observability tools for monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Experience with integration and onboarding third-party vendors and defining integration patterns.
• Experience with designing and implementing Microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Event Driven Architecture design/implementation.
• Proficient in various database technologies and data platforms.
• Experience with Data Engineers collaboration.
• Adherence to WCAG accessibility standards.
• Awareness of performance and non-functional requirements.
• Proficient in collaborative code reviews and Agile delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital client journeys.
• Design and develop AWS cloud-native applications with TypeScript and React and manage them using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Write high-quality, secure, tested and performant code.
• Create and maintain automated tests for new changes.
• Document all solutions according to team standards.
• Produce well throughout and clear solution diagrams.
• 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 CI/CD, quality, security, performance.
• Cultivate strong working relationships within the squad and across the organisation.
• Engage in working groups to support the development team.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

AWS

Terraform

DevOps

React Native

PHP

Java

Jest

Cypress

Playwright

CI/CD

Observability

Microservices

REST APIs

Event Driven

Databases

Data Platform

WCAG

Agile

Tools

Terraform

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're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you!

About the role

HL are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to work on one of our Investment Growth product engineering teams in building market-leading solutions for our clients.

This is an opportunity to join the UK’s number one investment services company, looking after over £180 billion in assets on behalf of more than 2 million UK investors. This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK’s most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital client journeys.

• Design and develop AWS cloud-native applications with TypeScript and React and manage them using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Write high-quality, secure, tested and performant code.

• Create and maintain automated tests for new changes.

• Document all solutions according to team standards.

• Produce well throughout and clear solution diagrams.

• 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.

• Cultivate strong working relationships within the squad and across the organisation.

• Engage in working groups and communities of practice to support the development team.

Skills

• Extensive professional experience with TypeScript, React and Node, deployed on AWS using IaC tools such as Terraform.

• Strong experience working in a truly full-stack role, including DevOps.

• Professional experience with React Native would be very beneficial.

• Experience of other languages, such as PHP or Java, would also be beneficial.

• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools and practices (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Backstop, Playwright).

• Experience with CI/CD and Trunk Based Development.

• Experience with observability tools and practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure system reliability and performance.

• Experience with integration and onboarding third-party vendors, meeting with vendor engineering contacts, defining integration patterns, abstracting vendor APIs/data models from internal downstream services etc.

• Experience with the design and implementation of Microservices and RESTful APIs, including structuring, documenting, versioning and testing.

• Design and implementation experience using Event Driven Architecture.

• Proficient in various database technologies and their applications.

• Experience of data platform technologies and collaboration with Data Engineers.

• Adherence to WCAG accessibility standards.

• 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.

Attributes

• Collaborate 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, and fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe environment.

• Clear communication, both in writing and verbally, 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 prioritise tasks, meet deadlines, and balance multiple responsibilities.

• Willingness to learn and a growth mindset, with a desire for professional development.

• Enjoys coaching and guiding others in a team and prioritises sharing knowledge.

• Persistent, with a pride in what you do.

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 outpatient 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.