Software Engineer - Core Wealth

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 / No
  
  SQL databases
• Event‑driven and micro‑services architectures
• Containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops 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):
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