Software Engineer (Content)

About the role

Hargreaves Lansdown is looking for a talented and enthusiastic full-stack Software Engineer to join our Unified Client Experience and Personalisation tribe, who is passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for our clients, to support our mission to transform the investing experience by using advanced personalisation across our digital journeys.

Role Responsibilities

• 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.

Experience

• Experience of developing and maintaining client and server-side applications.
• Experience of developing and maintaining infrastructure as code.
• Experience of developing using AWS.
• 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.
• Professional experience with AWS, in particular, Lambda, S3, eventBridge, SQS and ECS services.
• 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 Knowledge of excellent development practices to optimise for rapid and continuous delivery of client value.

Desirable

• 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.

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.

Working Schedule

This is a remote first role that is full time, working 37.5 hours a week (Monday – Friday). The team aim to get together on site in Bristol up to once a month for team days.

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 s and w ellness c oach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• T wo 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.