Software Engineer - Unified Client Experience

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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!

About The Role

HL are looking for a talented full stack Software Engineer to join The Web Platform Team to help build market leading solutions for our clients. We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving our legacy PHP applications to support the delivery of our product roadmap.

This role is instrumental in driving our transition from an on-premises legacy technology stack to a modern, AWS-managed services ecosystem. As we progress with this migration, you will work closely with our team to integrate TypeScript and React into our target architecture. Over time, the focus of this role will shift from maintaining legacy PHP systems to contributing directly to the development and optimization of our modernized technology stack.

This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £149.7bn billion in assets on behalf of more than 1.86 million UK investors. This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and run AWS Cloud-native applications with TypeScript and React
• Establish and maintain automated tests for the changes being implemented.
• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code.
• In time providing coaching & mentoring to peers and more junior members of the team
• Work collaboratively with others in a cross functional team to deliver high quality digital client journeys
• Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the ways of working, quality, security, performance and CI/CD processes.
• Responsible in helping to document solutions and write ADRs
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team.
• Cultivate strong working relationships both within working squad and in HL as a whole.
• Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team.
• Continually develop both technical and interpersonal skills.
• Providing engineering support for existing applications when necessary.

About You

• Experience with TypeScript, React, CI/CD
• Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (e.g. PHPUnit, Playwright, Jest, Cypress, Backstop).
• Enjoys upskilling others in a team - you prioritise sharing knowledge
• Experience with CI / CD and Trunk Based Development.
• Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.
• Understanding of event driven architecture.
• Experience performing code reviews.
• Experience operating within Agile framework.
• Aware of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.
• Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation.
• Advocate of excellent development practices to optimize for rapid and continuous delivery of client value.

Nice To Have

• Professional PHP experience with modern frameworks with a desire to move away from PHP into TypeScript / AWS full stack.
• AWS experience.

Skills / Attributes

• Excellent collaborator naturally works well with others across different disciplines in a cross functional team.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills.
• Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving.
• Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative.
• Pragmatic and focused on delivery.
• Effective time management.
• Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally.
• Tenacious, with a pride in what you do.
• Have a continuous improvement mindset.

Interview Process

This will be a two-stage interview compromising of a technical questions focused exercise and a behavioural / competency focused interview.

Working Schedule

37.5 hours flexible based upon meeting business demands with occasional onsite visits at the Bristol office.

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.