Senior Engineer (Typescript and Node)

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities.

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement. We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions, aiming to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will apply your software engineering skills to build high-quality features, resolve bugs, and address technical debt. You will also bring a strategic perspective to team processes and tooling, helping to continuously improve how we work and deliver valuable, reliable software to our customers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering clean, maintainable features and resolving end-to-end issues by applying thoughtful engineering approaches that ensure solutions are fit for purpose, aligned with standards, and deliver real value to our customers.
• Contributing to the technical debt strategy, helping the team maintain secure, resilient, and reliable systems that support long-term scalability and performance.
• Defining effective test strategies that prioritise security, usability, and accessibility, ensuring a consistently high-quality customer experience.
• Participating in code reviews with a focus on both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, maintainability, resiliency, and security.
• Promoting continuous improvement by encouraging inspection and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness, productivity, and overall wellbeing.
• Fostering a collaborative team culture, mentoring and supporting junior engineers to grow their skills and contribute confidently to delivery.
• Researching emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to integrate them into our applications, while sharing insights through developer forums to inspire innovation.
• Upholding customer-centric values, ensuring all work reflects Legal & General’s principles on Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly.

Qualifications:

• Backend - at least 3 years experience working as a backend developer on 1 or more large commercial projects (Node or JVM based frameworks).
• Solid knowledge of modern architecture patterns, including React fundamentals, REST-based microservices (JVM Spring or Node.js), mobile app design (MVP, MVVM, Flux), and clean code principles (SOLID, Onion, Hexagonal).
• Experience with testing and quality assurance, including test-driven development, the testing pyramid, and CI/CD pipelines, within Agile frameworks such as Scrum.
• Knowledge of cloud and container technologies, with working knowledge of GraphQL, AWS services, and Docker, and an understanding of mobile performance optimisation and React Native architecture.
• Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and decision-making skills balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability and business impact.
• Experience leading and mentoring within teams, facilitating technical workshops, coaching peers, and contributing to cross-team process improvements.
• Designing secure, observable, and scalable software with a focus on software architecture, threat modelling, and observability practices.
• Ability to drive automation and delivery accountability, optimise CI/CD processes, manage dependencies, and promote an operational mindset across teams.

Benefits:

• Annual performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• Healthcare plan (permanent employees only).
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service; option to buy and sell holiday.
• Competitive family leave.
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (permanent employees only).
• Discounts on our products and at partner stores.
• Office spaces designed to support wellbeing and collaboration.

At L&G, we believe it’s possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. We care about flexible working options and open discussions about role fit and timing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert; consider what you excel at and what else you can bring to our purpose.