Software Engineer (Java) - Active Savings (12 Month FTC)

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL.

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 a 12 month fixed term contract position.

About The Role

Active Savings makes it easy to switch your money on.

One online account lets you choose savings products from a range of banks and building societies. In Active Savings we build and maintain web services for our clients, partner banks and internal operations teams. These services are written in Java, with a front end written using HTML communicating with an Oracle database.

Within this role, you'll be working closely with a skilled and passionate cross-functional team to deliver improvements and crucial changes to our services in an agile way. You will have the opportunity to be instrumental in shaping and delivering modern, scalable, secure and highly performant applications.

We are a big believer in CI/CD and the fail fast philosophy, looking to automate wherever possible. You should embrace a culture that focuses on teamwork, rapid learning, and the continuous delivery of valuable software. This role will also involve coaching and support of other engineers. Therefore, being approachable, enthusiastic, patient and a clear communicator are all key attributes.

This is an exciting role within a fast-paced working environment based in the heart of Bristol (we're also very happy to look at those wanting to work fully remote). We believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning opportunities, dynamic agile teams and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What You'll Be Doing

• Responsible for writing high quality code, adhering to corporate & regulatory standards
• Working collaboratively with the team to help deliver new features for the business and enhance existing functionality
• Providing engineering support for existing applications where necessary
• Ensure code produced is in line with these current secure coding practices
• Review other engineers' code to ensure conformance with established standards
• Responsible for developing and evidencing automated tests alongside code produced
• Responsible for documenting all solutions produced to agreed team standards
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn further technologies & techniques
• Cultivate strong working relationships within the Digital department

About You

• Ideally 3+ years' experience developing in Java 8+
• Working knowledge of RDBMS and SQL
• Able to effectively use version control to manage code, in particular Git
• Understanding of professional development methodologies, tools (e.g source control, automation testing tools, build servers and wider SDLC)
• Working with automated build pipelines / continuous integration
• Ability to work well both independently and in a team
• Adopts a logical, analytical, and methodical approach to problem solving

Nice to Have

• A background in finance/banking
• Understanding of TDD and BDD
• Test automation with Cucumber and Selenium
• Understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) model principles and application design patterns
• Frontend Web development, HTML, CSS.
• Knowledge of using JIRA and other Atlassian products

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, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's On Offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

* dependant on role level

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.