SussexDigital
Senior Engineer (MongoDB & AWS Serverless)
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Legal & General
Brighton & Hove
Legal & General is recruiting for the role of Senior Engineer (MongoDB & AWS Serverless). Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building and evolving cloud-native platforms. The work centres on AWS serverless technologies and MongoDB, with responsibility for secure, scalable software and continual improvement.
Role details
Location: Brighton & Hove
Job type: Full-time
What you’ll do
- Own the design and delivery of high-quality software solutions across features, services and systems.
- Build and operate cloud-native, serverless applications on AWS with attention to security, resilience, scalability and performance.
- Apply clean code, sound architectural principles and engineering best practices aligned with SSDLC and technology strategy.
- Identify and address technical debt to support maintainability, reliability and operability.
- Define and influence test strategies with a focus on quality, security, accessibility, usability, resilience and non-functional requirements.
- Perform and lead code reviews that improve code quality, system design and team capability.
- Drive improvements in team processes, tooling and ways of working while supporting learning and accountability.
- Mentor and coach engineers while encouraging collaboration, inclusion and knowledge sharing.
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What they’re looking for
- 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.
- Hands-on use of Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, CloudFormation and serverless frameworks.
- Deep, practical experience with MongoDB, including schema design, performance optimisation and advanced aggregation pipelines.
- Solid understanding of SQL and other NoSQL data stores.
- Extensive experience building and maintaining large-scale systems using TDD, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation.
- A strong security-first mindset with experience in secure application development, web and API security, threat modelling and compliance in cloud environments.
- Significant experience working in Agile environments such as Scrum and Kanban.
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Additional role information
- The role is in a modern Agile engineering environment.
- It supports fair customer outcomes in line with Customer Experience principles and Treating Customers Fairly policy.
- You should keep pace with emerging cloud, data and application technologies and share relevant insights across the engineering community.
- The role involves collaborating with non-technical stakeholders and influencing team culture and outcomes.
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