Senior Developer

Job Description

Job Type: Perm

Location: This role will be based in either our Telford or London office. There may also be the need for occasional trips to our other sites.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

Salary and benefits: Up to £76,000 plus discretionary bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Closing Date: 1st June

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Standard Life as a UI Engineer in Data, Reporting & Platform Applications in our Transformation, Tech and Data team within the Asset Management function.

This role is responsible for delivering high‑performance user interfaces for our Retirement Solutions & Asset Management teams. As part of a platform engineering function, you will build reusable UI frameworks, shared, and supporting services that enable scalable, consistent, and user-friendly data analytics workflows across the organisation.

The engineer also acts as a bridge between front‑end UI needs and backend data/API services, ensuring seamless, low‑latency experiences for users.

• Building and enhancing our inhouse UI platform(s) by developing and maintaining fast, reactive, and data‑intensive front‑end interfaces, aligning with data analytics UI expectations.
• Build reliable, scalable, and secure REST/Graph
  
  QL endpoints supporting front‑end rendering and user interactions.
• Ensure UI performance, stability, and responsiveness under heavy, time‑sensitive data loads.
• Contribute to authentication, access control, and session management patterns across the platform.
• Develop shared tooling, frameworks, and UI modules consumed by multiple product teams.
• Collaborate with cross‑team engineers to ensure platform services and UI components evolve cohesively.
• Create standards, patterns, and best practices for UI/UX consistency across trading applications.
• Work directly with the business and product owners to understand workflows and translate them into intuitive interfaces.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and agile ceremonies to drive continuous improvement.
• Deliver code that is well‑tested, maintainable, and adheres to SDLC best practices.
• Monitor UI and backend service performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing optimisations.

• Previous experience in banking, Financial Asset Management or a highly regulated environment.
• Strong expertise in React, Type Script, JavaScript with solid understanding of React core principles (hooks, component composition, lifecycle, rendering patterns)
• Experience with modern React workflows (Redux, Flux, Context API)
• Experience implementing client‑side state management using Apollo Client or Relay, including cache management and subscriptions.
• Experience with real‑time UI patterns using Web Sockets or streaming APIs.
• Experience with cloud web application development using AWS services and understanding of AWS Services for front end development such as Cognito / AWS Amplify / AWS App Sync / Cloud Front.
• Proficiency with Graph
  
  QL concepts including schema definitions, resolvers, queries, mutations and subscriptions
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization (memoization, lazy loading, virtualization)…