Software Engineer (Java) - Payments

Hargreaves Lansdown; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment services company is seeking a Software Engineer in Payments. You will develop and maintain payment solutions while working in a collaborative Agile team. Bring your expertise in Java and AWS to innovative projects that impact the future of investing.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution

Private medical insurance

Flexible working options available

Qualifications

• Very good knowledge of Java, preferably recent versions.
• Solid commercial programming experience.
• Comfortable working in a Scrum/Agile team.

Responsibilities

• Writing high quality Java code.
• Working collaboratively as part of an Agile team.
• Actively contributing to the Agile process.

Skills

Java

Agile

Design patterns

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Gradle

GIT

Terraform

Job description

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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

As a Software Engineer in Payments, you’ll be responsible for providing new features and maintaining existing codebase within Payments Product Team.

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

As a Software Engineer in Payments, you’ll be responsible for providing new features and maintaining existing codebase within Payments Product Team.

The product is focused on building and maintaining payment solutions.

You will be working on technology initiatives that require delivery of high quality, secure and resilient software, in a sustainable and predictable way.

We are always looking forward and constantly striving to use the best and most innovative solutions available.

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.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Writing high quality Java code;
• Working collaboratively as part of a Agile team;
• Suggesting your ideas, participating in technology choices, presenting your solutions;
• Actively contributing to the Agile process (stand ups, retrospectives, etc.) and the overall output of the team.

Essential Skills

• Very good knowledge on Java, preferably the recent versions;
• Hands-on experience with design patterns and programming best practices;
• Have a mindset of continuous improvement in everything you do;
• Solid commercial programming experience;
• Comfortable working in a Scrum/Agile team;
• Developing secure & maintainable code;
• Finding innovative solutions to problems;

Must Have

• Java 17+
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• AWS (Fargate, SNS/SQS)
• Gradle
• Design patterns
• Sync & async integration patterns (REST, messaging)
• GIT

Nice to have

• AWS
• Terraform
• TypeScript

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