Senior Software Engineer

AJ Bell, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Operational and Regulatory Technology department for an award‑winning investment platform, offering a collaborative team working environment, training and excellent career progression.

• Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and building a high‑performance engineering team
• Guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products
• Consider architectural and non‑functional requirements and work with the team to deliver

• Significant commercial experience developing services and APIs with C#, .NET Core, Mongo and/or SQL with techniques such as domain‑driven design and MVC.
• Strong technical background in web development with Angular/React/VueJS.
• Experience in developing HTTP‑based APIs and implementation of RESTful services with JSON.
• Thorough understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Practices Test Driven Development and is comfortable with various test frameworks and concepts.
• A proven record in developing scalable, highly available and highly performing middle‑tier components.
• Familiarisation with containerisation and tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience of developing, deploying, and maintaining Cloud‑Based solutions on AWS.
• Understand principles behind highly performing web pages.
• Experience/Familiarity with Entity Framework Core.
• Experience/Familiarity with communications technologies (Web API, Google Protocol Buffers) and message queues (e.g. Rabbit
  
  MQ, SQS).

• Agile / SCRUM / SAFe.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm.
• E‑commerce and/or financial services experience.

AJ Bell is one of the fastest‑growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award‑winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award‑winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK’s ‘Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service.
• Holiday buy and sell scheme.
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7 %.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Annual free share awards scheme.
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme.
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Simply Health.
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan.
• Free gym membership, with an on‑site gym providing a wide range of free classes.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Bike loan scheme.
• Sick pay+ pledge.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
• Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay.
• Loans for travel season tickets.
• Death in service scheme.
• Dedicated time for proof‑of‑concepts and assessing new tech.
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet‑ups.
• Paid time off for volunteer work.
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice.
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more.
• Parking at Exchange Quay.
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops.
• Ongoing technical training.
• Professional qualification support.
• Talent management programmes.
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping…