Senior Backend Developer - Node and AWS in City of London

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. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

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 with 12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys. We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep expertise in React Native 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.

• 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.
• Upholding customer-centric values, ensuring all work reflects Legal & General’s principles on Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience working as a backend developer on 1 or more large commercial projects (Node or JVM based frameworks).
• Demonstrating 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).
• Applying best practices in testing and quality assurance, including test-driven development, the testing pyramid, and CI/CD pipelines, while working effectively within Agile frameworks such as Scrum.
• Utilising cloud and container technologies, with working knowledge of GraphQL, AWS services, and Docker, and a strong understanding of mobile performance optimisation and React Native’s underlying architecture.
• Leading and mentoring within teams, by facilitating technical workshops, coaching peers, and contributing to cross-team process improvements that align with strategic goals.
• Designing secure, observable, and scalable software, with a strong grasp of software architecture, threat modelling, and observability practices to ensure resilient and reliable systems.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you:

• The opportunity to participate in our 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. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday.
• Competitive family leave.
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only).
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online.

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.