Senior Engineer; MongoDB

Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to play a critical role in designing, building, and evolving our cloud‑native platforms. You will bring deep technical expertise, strong engineering judgement, and a customer‑first mindset to deliver secure, scalable, and high‑performing software.

As a senior member of the team, you will help shape technical direction, reduce complexity and technical debt, and continuously improve how we engineer, deliver, and operate our services. This role has a strong emphasis on AWS serverless technologies and Mongo

DB, operating within a modern, Agile engineering environment.

• Owning the design and delivery of high‑quality software solutions, working end‑to‑end across features, services, and systems to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes
• Building and operating cloud‑native, serverless applications on AWS, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and optimised for performance and cost
• Leading by example in applying clean code, sound architectural principles, and engineering best practices that align with Legal & General’s SSDLC and technology strategy
• Actively identifying, prioritising, and addressing technical debt, ensuring long‑term maintainability, reliability, and operability of our platforms
• Defining and influencing test strategies that raise the quality bar, with a focus on security, accessibility, usability, resilience, and non‑functional requirements
• Performing and leading high‑quality code reviews, providing constructive feedback that improves code quality, system design and team capability
• Driving continuous improvement in team processes, tooling and ways of working, fostering a culture of learning, accountability and technical excellence
• Mentoring and coaching engineers within the team, supporting their technical growth while encouraging collaboration, inclusion and knowledge sharing
• Keeping pace with emerging cloud, data and application technologies, identifying opportunities to adopt relevant advancements and sharing insights across the engineering community
• Ensuring solutions and engineering practices consistently support fair customer outcomes, in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience principles and Treating Customers Fairly policy

• Strong expertise in modern software engineering, including clean code, clean architecture, design patterns, distributed systems, microservices and cloud‑native application design
• Proven experience delivering serverless solutions on AWS, with hands‑on use of Lambda, API Gateway, ECS and infrastructure‑as‑code using Cloud Formation and serverless frameworks
• Deep, practical experience with Mongo
  
  DB, including schema design, performance optimisation and advanced aggregation pipelines, alongside a solid understanding of SQL and other No
  
  SQL data stores
• Extensive experience building and maintaining large‑scale systems using TDD, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation, with an emphasis on reliability and operational excellence
• A strong security‑first mindset, with real‑world experience in secure application development, web and API security, threat modelling and compliance in cloud environments
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems, make sound architectural decisions, navigate ambiguity and balance immediate delivery needs with long‑term system health
• Significant experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban), contributing to effective planning, prioritisation, dependency management and continuous improvement across teams
• A natural technical leader and communicator who can mentor others, facilitate technical discussions, collaborate effectively with non‑technical stakeholders and positively influence team culture and outcomes

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance‑related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. Option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participation in our electric car scheme,…