Senior Software Engineer - Savings

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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

HL are looking for a talented full stack Senior Software Engineer to join our Active Savings product development team in building market leading solutions for our clients. The Savings application allows HL clients to easily deposit cash into a selection of savings accounts offered by partner banks. It is a bespoke development project with several functional sub-components.

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.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital client journeys
• Help drive our future technical direction to enable us to deliver modern, scalable, secure and highly performant application
• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code
• Create and maintain automated tests for all changes
• Document all solutions according to team standards
• Provide engineering support and maintenance for existing applications.
• Continuously develop your own technical and interpersonal skills, with a willingness to learn and adopt new technologies and techniques.
• Provide coaching & mentoring to peers and junior members of the team
• Advocate for continuous improvement in ways of working, quality, security, performance, and CI/CD processes.
• Engage in working groups and communities of practice to support the development team

About You

• Extensive professional experience with Java 11+, Springboot, RDBMS and SQL
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools and practices
• Experience with CI/CD and Trunk Based Development
• Advocate for observability, experienced in monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure system reliability and performance
• Awareness of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements
• Proficient in collaborative code reviews, technical documentation, and advocating for excellent development practices to optimize for rapid and continuous delivery of client value within an Agile framework
• Collaborates effectively with others across different disciplines in a cross functional team
• Excellent team skills, demonstrating a flexible approach to ideas: strongly formed but actively soliciting team input
• Clear communication, both written and verbal, with good numerical skills
• Logical, analytical and methodical approach to problem solving
• Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative
• Pragmatic and focused on delivery
• Efficient time management, with the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and balance multiple responsibilities
• Willingness to learn and a growth mindset, with a desire to develop professionally
• Enjoys coaching and guiding others in a team and prioritizes sharing knowledge.
• Persistent, with a pride in what you do

Nice To Have

• A background in finance/banking
• Experience with the design and implementation of Microservices and RESTful APIs, including structuring, documenting, versioning and testing
• Understanding of TDD and BDD
• Test automation with Cucumber and Selenium
• Frontend Web development, HTML, CSS
• Knowledge of using JIRA and other Atlassian products

Tech Stack

• Java / Springboot / Gradle / HTML / Oracle / My Batis
• Cucumber / Selenium / Rest Assured / Jenkins
• Linux / Windows

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,…