Hargreaves Lansdown
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Software Engineer
HL are looking for a talented Software Engineer to work on one of our Investment Growth product engineering teams in building market-leading solutions for our clients.
This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £180 billion in assets on behalf of more than 2 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
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital client journeys.
- Develop AWS Cloud-native applications with TypeScript and React and manage them using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Write high-quality, secure, tested and performant code.
- Create and maintain automated tests for new changes.
- Document all solutions according to team standards.
- Provide engineering support and maintenance for existing applications.
- Continuously develop your own technical and interpersonal skills, with a willingness to learn and adopt new technologies and techniques.
- Provide coaching & mentoring to peers.
- Advocate for continuous improvement in ways of working, quality, security, performance, and CI/CD processes.
- Cultivate strong working relationships within the squad and across the organisation.
- Engage in working groups and communities of practice to support the development team.
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Skills
- Professional experience with TypeScript, React and Node, and with the use of IaC tools such as Terraform.
- Familiarity with product development for cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP, and related technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker and serverless).
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing tools and practices (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Backstop, Playwright).
- Experience with CI/CD and Trunk Based Development.
- Experience with observability tools and practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.
- Understanding of Event Driven Architecture.
- Understanding of databases technologies and how to work with them, including document, relational and data platform tools.
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards.
- Awareness of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.
- Proficient in collaborative code reviews, technical documentation, and advocating for excellent development practices to optimize for rapid and continuous delivery of client value within an Agile framework.
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Attributes
- Collaborate effectively with team members across various disciplines in a cross-functional team.
- Strong team skills, open to new ideas and actively seeking team input, and contributing to an inclusive and psychologically safe environment.
- Clear communication, both in writing and verbally, with good numerical skills.
- Logical, analytical and methodical approach to problem solving.
- Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative.
- Pragmatic and focused on delivery.
- Efficient time management, with the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and balance multiple responsibilities.
- Willingness to learn and a growth mindset, with a desire to develop professionally.
- Enjoys sharing knowledge and helping others in the team to improve their skills.
- Persistent, with a pride in what you do.
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