Senior Software Engineer

HL are looking for a talented Senior 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.

• Design and 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.

• Produce well throughout and clear solution diagrams.

• 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 and junior members of the team

• 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.

Skills

• Extensive professional experience with TypeScript, React and Node, deployed on AWS using IaC tools such as Terraform.

• Strong experience working in a truly full-stack role, including DevOps.

• Professional experience with React Native would be very beneficial.

• Experience of other languages, such as PHP or Java, would also be beneficial.

• 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.

• Experience with integration and onboarding third-party vendors, meeting with vendor engineering contacts, defining integration patterns, abstracting vendor APIs/data models from internal downstream services etc.

• Experience with the design and implementation of Microservices and RESTful APIs, including structuring, documenting, versioning and testing.

• Design and implementation experience using Event Driven Architecture.

• Proficient in various database technologies and their applications.

• Experience of data platform technologies and collaboration with Data Engineers.

• Adherence to 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.

Attributes

• Collaborate effectively with others across different disciplines in a cross-functional team.

• Excellent team skills, demonstrating a flexible approach to ideas: strongly formed but actively soliciting team input, and fostering 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 prioritise tasks, meet deadlines, and balance multiple responsibilities.

• Willingness to learn and a growth mindset, with a desire for professional development.

• Enjoys coaching and guiding others in a team and prioritises sharing knowledge.

• Persistent, with a pride in what you do.