Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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!

Do you have a passion for building outstanding digital experiences? Are you looking for the next step in your career?

HL’s website is a core part of our digital platform and provides both prospective and current clients with information on our service, the stock market, news, and education. Over the past year we have been migrating to a new cutting-edge headless CMS (Contentful) and are now looking to accelerate this, as well as take it to the next level, building services which allow us to create client experiences with deep personalisation, working seamlessly across devices and channels.

Hargreaves Lansdown is looking for a talented and enthusiastic senior full-stack (React/Typescript/Next.js/Node.js) engineer, that is passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for our clients, to join our team in our mission to transform the investing experience by using advanced personalisation across our client journeys.

This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £149.7bn billion in assets on behalf of more than 1.86 million UK investors. We are a secure, FTSE listed company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 people. This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

• Build and run full-stack web applications with Type Script, Next.js, Node.js, React.
• Develop and maintain design component library, implementing from Figma designs.
• Strategically plan, establish and maintain automated tests for the changes being implemented.
• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code.
• Work collaboratively with others in a cross functional team to deliver high quality digital client journeys.
• Strategically improve our release and deployment strategies (CI/CD, gitops, policy).
• Key contributor in work pre-planning - coming up with architectural options including trade-offs.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team.
• Cultivate strong working relationships both within working squad and in HL as a whole.
• Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team.
• Continually develop both technical and interpersonal skills.
• Pro-actively providing engineering support for existing applications.
• Pro-actively providing coaching & mentoring to peers.

• Experience of developing client and server-side web applications using a range of technologies inc. AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Lambdas, Type Script, Next.js, Node.js, React.
• Experience working with Contentful CMS to develop content models and interfacing with the content/asset delivery APIS.
• Experience of developing and maintaining infrastructure as code.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (Jest, Playwright).
• Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.
• Experience performing code reviews and following up with learning opportunities.
• Experience operating within an Agile framework.
• Experience of working in a Dev Ops culture.

• Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS (Tailwind/SCSS), JavaScript and Typescript.
• Senior level working knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, in particular, React, Next.js, Node.js.
• Fluent using Git (Git Lab) and building CI / CD pipelines.
• Aware of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.
• A working understanding of web accessibility and how to ensure interfaces are accessible
• Ability to write and share…