Senior Software Engineer - Identity

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Identity team at Hargreaves Lansdown. As part of a major transformation programme, you'll help deliver the migration of our identity services to a new strategic platform, shaping how millions of customers securely access our products and services, as well as making delivery easier for internal teams. Role Responsibilities We are looking for someone that is passionate about delivering market-leading client experiences, with prior experience implementing Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions being a benefit.

Build and run Cloud-native applications with Typescript and React. Develop internal services deploying to AWS, using both serverless and container-based infrastructure. Establish and maintain a high degree of automated test coverage for those services. Write high quality, secure and performant code. Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the quality, security and performance and the CI/CD processes. Document all solutions, as well as driving architectural decisions within the team.

Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team. Cultivate strong working relationships both within the team and across HL as a whole. Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team. Providing engineering support for existing applications when necessary. Proactively coaching & mentoring to peers. Comfortable engaging with external stakeholders, such as security, enterprise architecture and downstream consumers of your team's services.

Evangelise best practices and assist the team in avoiding anti-patterns. Experience Professional experience with Typescript, AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience developing and maintaining React-based JavaScript SPAs.

Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices.

Experience of onboarding, integrating and managing 3rd party platforms. Understanding of Microservices architectures and the principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking. Experience operating within Agile development teams. Knowledge Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Typescript. Excellent working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including React, Hono or equivalent. Understanding of the OAuth 2 Framework and Open  flows (OIDC).

Use of JSON Web Tokens and the concepts of asymmetric cryptography. Fluent using Git (Git Lab/Git Hub), as well as understanding concepts related to CI/CD and Trunk Based Development. Awareness of website performance and accessibility best practices. Advocate of excellent development practices including test-driven development, pairing and mobbing. Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation. Desirable Hands on experience with Ping One Advanced Identity Cloud, formally Forge Rock.

Experience of Graph

QL and related technologies. Ability to understand Java and/or PHP code. Skills Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills. Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving. Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative. Effective time management. Attributes Comfortable with helping and consulting others. Collaborates with others over significant decisions and able to articulate effectively. Is approachable, friendly, with a consistently positive, constructive attitude whilst performing day-to-day activities.

Promotes the culture of Hargreaves Lansdown in terms of quality, drive, entrepreneurial activity and commitment to outstanding client service. Pragmatic and focused on delivery. Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally. Tenacious, with a pride in what you do. Have a continuous improvement mindset. Desire to contribute to the organisation's success and uphold its exceptional reputation.