Software Engineer - Edinburgh

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the department: At Aberdeen Adviser, we are building a modern, scalable technology platform that empowers financial advisers to serve their clients more efficiently. Our engineering teams work in cross-functional squads to develop innovative, high-quality software solutions that make a real impact. We foster a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous learning, where every engineer can shape the future of our platform.

About the role: As a Software Engineer (mid-level), you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-based applications. Reporting to an Engineering Chapter Lead, you will take ownership of technical implementations, collaborate with product and UX teams, and contribute to delivering RESTful microservices, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.

This is a role for a passionate engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, writing clean and maintainable code, and continuously learning. You will be part of a supportive team that encourages innovation, best practices, and career progression.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality RESTful microservices, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Build cloud-native applications, leveraging Microsoft Azure, with a consideration for event-driven architectures where appropriate.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and improving overall team quality.
• Identify technical challenges, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to the team’s continuous improvement efforts.

About the candidate: The Ideal candidate will possess:

• Hands-on experience developing software in a modern programming language, such as React / React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.JS, or equivalent modern technologies.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure or another cloud platform, including cloud-native applications, serverless functions, or containerized deployments.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architectures, with an understanding of event-driven approaches.
• Passion for writing clean, testable code, following best practices in TDD, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• A growth mindset, eager to learn new technologies, experiment with modern approaches, and improve continuously.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits: There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.

Our business: Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs.

An inclusive way of working: Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.