Hargreaves Lansdown
Software Engineer - Pensions, ISA & Investments

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Excited to grow your career? Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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About the Role
Salary: Up to £65,000 dependent on experience
HL are looking for a talented full stack Software Engineer to join a Pensions & Retirement product engineering team 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
- 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.
- 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 for documenting all solutions, produced to agreed team standards.
- Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team.
- Cultivate strong working relationships within the squad across Product and Engineering.
- 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.
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About You
- Professional experience with AWS, full stack TypeScript with React on the front end, IaC, CI/CD
- Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Backstop).
- Enjoys learning - you prioritise growing 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.
- Experience performing code reviews.
- Experience operating within Agile framework.
- Aware of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.
- Able to assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation.
- Advocate of excellent development practices to optimise for rapid and continuous delivery of client value.
- React Native, GraphQL, DevOps and event driven architecture experience beneficial
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.
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* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Health screening programme
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year


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** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
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.
Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's number one platform for private investors. Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence, and today, we are trusted with more than £120 billion by over 1.7 million clients. We are based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 colleagues. We believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos. We're steered by our core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
For more information about careers at HL and to see all our vacancies, please visit our careers website.
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