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Hargreaves Lansdown

Software Engineer

Bristol
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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. 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

Do you have a passion for building outstanding digital experiences? Are you looking for the next step in your career? HL’s website is a core part of our digital platform and provides both prospective and current clients with information on our service, the stock market, news, and education.

Over the past year we have been migrating to a new cutting-edge headless content platform and are now looking to accelerate this, as well as take it to the next level, building services which allow us to create client experiences with deep personalisation, working seamlessly across devices and channels.

Hargreaves Lansdown is looking for a talented and enthusiastic full-stack (React/Typescript/Node.js) engineer, that is passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for our clients to join our team in our mission to transform the investing experience by using advanced personalisation across our client journeys.

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. We're based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 people.

This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

What You'll Do

  • Build and run AWS Cloud-native applications with TypeScript, Node.js, React.
  • Build infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS services.
  • 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 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.
  • Providing coaching & mentoring to peers.

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What We're Looking For

  • Experience of developing and maintaining client and server-side applications.
  • Experience of developing and maintaining infrastructure as code.
  • Experience of developing using AWS or similar.
  • Experience of debugging, root cause analysis and resolution of production issues.
  • Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (e.g. Jest, Playwright).
  • Experience with integration and onboarding 3rd party vendors, meeting with vendor engineering contacts, defining integration patterns, abstracting vendor APIs/data models from internal downstream services etc.
  • Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.
  • Experience performing code reviews.
  • Experience operating within an Agile framework.
  • Experience of working in a DevOps culture.

Knowledge

  • Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS (SCSS), JavaScript and Typescript.
  • Excellent working knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, in particular, React, Node.js.
  • Fluent using Git (GitLab).
  • Understanding CI / CD pipelines. and Trunk Based Development.
  • Aware of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.
  • Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation.
  • Advocate

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.
  • Always has time for others whilst achieving high quality in own work and will also help other teams.
  • Consults with others over large or complex decisions and able to articulately document these.
  • Is approachable, friendly, with a consistently positive, constructive attitude whilst performing day-to-day activities.
  • Promotes the culture of Hargreaves Lansdown in terms of quality, drive, entrepreneurial activity and commitment to outstanding client service.

Desirables

  • Previous experience of working with a Headless CMS solution (Contentful).
  • Understanding and appreciation for the Jamstack architectural approach.
  • Experience of working with large datasets and integrating distributed systems.
  • Experience working with and implementing MarTech solutions such as Analytics, A/B Testing, Personalisation and Tag Management.
  • Professional experience with AWS or similar, in particular, Lambda, S3, eventBridge, SQS and ECS services.

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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

* dependant on role level ** 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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Skills

React
TypeScript
Node.js
AWS
Terraform
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
Git
CI/CD
RESTful API
Microservices
Agile
DevOps
Jest
Playwright
Headless CMS

Location

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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