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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!

This is the future of HL - and the future of investing.

We’re building the next generation of platform for one of the UK’s largest financial services companies, trusted by over 1.8 million clients and managing £130+ billion in assets. This is your opportunity to shape technology that will redefine how people invest and achieve financial freedom.

All development within Core Wealth Services is greenfield. That means a clean slate - the chance to design, architect and build from the ground up using modern technologies and best practices. No legacy constraints. Just the freedom to architect scalable, robust, and future-proof solutions.

Core Wealth Services forms the backbone of our investment platform, managing the essential business logic and processes that power wealth management operations. This domain handles critical financial workflows and regulatory compliance, ensuring secure and seamless experiences for millions of users.

Our purpose is clear: to give people financial freedom. By joining us, you’ll help deliver innovative, secure, and scalable solutions that make investing easier and more accessible for everyone.

This is the future of HL. This is the future of investing. And you can be part of it.

• Building and deploying scalable, fault‑tolerant micro‑services at pace, owning them end to end.
• Integrating with cloud applications, operating in a zero‑trust, security‑first environment.
• Delivering value iteratively, always focused on customer outcomes and short feedback loops.
• Creating and visualising application metrics to help understand usage patterns and anomalies.
• Reviewing code with peers, with an eye for both quality and velocity.
• Collaborating with other members in the team to solve problems, not just ship features.
• Innovating, bringing new ideas to the table for adoption throughout HL Digital.
• Contributing to technical decisions and shaping how we build our services.

• Experience building and deploying services with Java and Spring Boot.
• Comfort working in a cloud-native environment – Kubernetes (EKS), containers, scaling etc.
• An understanding of observability, using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to keep services healthy and understand usage patterns.
• Familiarity with some AWS services and how to integrate them into modern applications.
• A keen focus on quality and security, baking testing and scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Capable of writing clean, maintainable and well‑tested code.
• Happy to review, share knowledge and learn from senior engineers within the team.
• Adaptable, thriving in a fast‑moving environment where we ship things quickly and always look to evolve.

• Java (21) and Spring Boot
• AWS and cloud‑native architecture
• RDBMS / NoSQL databases
• Event‑driven and micro‑services architectures
• Containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles
• TDD / BDD testing frameworks

We offer a competitive salary of up to £70,000, depending on experience, alongside a generous performance‑based bonus scheme.

Your total reward package includes:

• Up to 19% pension contribution - helping you plan confidently for the future.
• A wide range of excellent benefits, from lifestyle perks to wellbeing support, designed to help you thrive both in and out of work.

3 Stage interview:

• Stage 1 – Discussion with our Hiring Manager (30 mins): A chance to talk with our Hiring Manager in more detail about the role, our tech stack and some of the problems we solve everyday. Here, we’ll dig a bit more into some of your experiences, understand the processes you’re familiar with and the technologies you’ve used to deliver end‑user value.
• Stage 2 – Technical (70 mins): For the technical part we’d like you to sit down with some of your potential peers to work through a coding solution. We’ll be looking together at where a sample piece of code has issues and how we might address them.
• Stage 3 – Culture Fit (30 mins): In our Cultural Fit section, we’ll be looking to learn more about your past experiences, what keeps you motivated, where we may be able to help you improve further, key decisions you’ve helped to make and issues you’ve resolved.

We’re based in the stunning Paddington Central offices at 4 Kingdom Street, a modern workspace designed to energise your day and elevate collaboration.

• Landscaped rooftop gardens - perfect for a breath of fresh air or informal catch‑ups.
• London’s highest rooftop basketball court - yes, really!
• ☕On‑site café and bar with sweeping views across West London.
• Wellness amenities including showers, lockers, hairdryers, and fresh towels.
• Cyclist‑friendly with secure bike storage and drying rooms.
• Stylish lounge areas, booths, and breakout spaces for focused work or relaxed chats.
• Canalside location near Little Venice, with floating restaurants, coffee shops, and a seasonal pop‑up garden bar.
• Unbeatable transport links - just steps from Paddington Station and the Elizabeth Line, with Heathrow only 30 minutes away.

We embrace a hybrid working model that gives you the best of both worlds:

• 2–3 days a week in the office to connect, collaborate, and enjoy everything the space has to offer.
• Remote flexibility for deep focus, work‑life balance, and personal productivity.

This is a full‑time role, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

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.

• 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× 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
• In‑house 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.