Senior Software Engineer - Identity

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Identity team at Hargreaves Lansdown. As part of a major transformation programme, you'll help deliver the migration of our identity services to a new strategic platform, shaping how millions of customers securely access our products and services, as well as making delivery easier for internal teams.

Role Responsibilities

• Passionate about delivering market-leading client experiences, with prior experience implementing Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions being a benefit.
• Build and run Cloud-native applications with Typescript and React.
• Develop internal services deploying to AWS, using both serverless and container-based infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain a high degree of automated test coverage for those services.
• Write high quality, secure and performant code.
• Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the quality, security and performance and the CI/CD processes.
• Document all solutions, as well as driving architectural decisions within the team.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team.
• Cultivate strong working relationships both within the team and across HL as a whole.
• Actively participate in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team.
• Provide engineering support for existing applications when necessary.
• Proactively coach & mentor peers.
• Comfortable engaging with external stakeholders, such as security, enterprise architecture and downstream consumers of your team's services.
• Evangelise best practices and assist the team in avoiding anti-patterns.

Experience

• Professional experience with Typescript, AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience developing and maintaining React-based JavaScript SPAs.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices.
• Experience of onboarding, integrating and managing 3rd party platforms.
• Understanding of Microservices architectures and the principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.
• Experience operating within Agile development teams.

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Typescript.
• Excellent working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including React, Hono or equivalent.
• Understanding of the OAuth 2 Framework and Open ID Connect flows (OIDC).
• Use of JSON Web Tokens and the concepts of asymmetric cryptography.
• Fluent using Git (GitLab/GitHub), as well as understanding concepts related to CI/CD and Trunk Based Development.
• Awareness of website performance and accessibility best practices.
• Advocate of excellent development practices including test-driven development, pairing and mobbing.
• Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation.

Desirable

• Hands on experience with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, formally ForgeRock.
• Experience of GraphQL and related technologies.
• Ability to understand Java and/or PHP code.

Skills

• 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.
• Effective time management.

Attributes

• Comfortable with helping and consulting others.
• Collaborates with others over significant decisions and able to articulate effectively.
• 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.
• Pragmatic and focused on delivery.
• Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally.
• Tenacious, with a pride in what you do.
• Have a continuous improvement mindset.
• Desire to contribute to the organisation's success and uphold its exceptional reputation.