Software Engineer in Bristol

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

Join HL and be part of the team, building software for the UK’s largest investment platform. Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) – the UK’s number one platform for private investors, trusted by 2 million clients with over £180 billion in savings and investments. For over 40 years, HL has been helping people save and invest for a better future, earning over 200 industry awards, including Best Investment App and Best for Customer Service in 2024. Our solutions are used daily by millions of clients, helping to power the operations of a leading financial institution. Our culture is built on innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

We are looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to help support our dedicated, friendly and growing Trading Team to deliver critical new functionality to our clients and internal users. If you enjoy working with clean architecture, modern technologies, and being part of a supportive team that learns from each other, we’d love to hear from you!

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.

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, DevOps and event driven architecture experience beneficial.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

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 out patient care.
• Health screening programme.
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP.
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider 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.

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.