Senior Backend Engineer in London

Company Overview

As one of the world's leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Job Description

We have an outstanding benefits package which includes:

• Company-provided healthcare
• A competitive annual leave allowance
• Flexible working options, including hybrid working arrangements
• Generous pension provisions
• Income protection
• Health and wellness benefits
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life insurance

Your Team

Join a dynamic team of finance, technology and distribution professionals working at the intersection of innovation and impact. We're developing a next-generation digital investment service designed to help retail intermediaries make investing more accessible, intuitive, and effective for their clients. Operating with the agility of a start-up and the backing of a global asset manager, our mission is to use technology to solve pressing challenges in the investment space driving real value for our clients and end investors alike.

Your Role

We're looking for a full stack engineer to help build and scale a new digital investment service, delivered through strategic partnerships with digital investment platforms. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist with a passion for building high-quality products, a strong track record in platform scalability, and a desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This is an opportunity to shape a product that empowers intermediaries and improves outcomes for retail investors.

What you will be doing

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain highly performant api-driven web applications on our stack (Angular, React, SASS, Java SpringBoot, Mulesoft).
• Design and implement REST APIs to industry/company standards.
• Work with our amazing product design team to develop and iterate on user interfaces that bring simplicity to complicated financial data.
• Interact with engineering members across the organization to ensure consistency in engineering practices and foster active exchange of ideas.
• Leverage our development centers in Atlanta, Houston, New York City and India and collaborate across a global organization.
• Perform peer code reviews; review performance, security and flexibility of the code.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (daily stand-up, release and sprint planning, demos, scrum of scrums).

What you will bring

• Proven years experience in front-end frameworks, such as Angular and React.
• Proven years experience in back-end technologies, such as Node.JS, ExpressJS, or Java SpringBoot.
• Experience with Mulesoft.
• Experience with core AWS services.
• Experience working in an Agile team and environment.
• Familiarity with software engineering support systems and tools, such as Git, Jenkins, Bamboo, Gulp, Bower, Maven, Log4j.
• Familiar with SSO solutions, such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID a plus.
• Knowledge of the Financial Services industry a plus.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Self-motivated and capable of working with little or no supervision.

Disability Confident Scheme

Applicants who opt in to the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the 'minimum criteria' for the role will be offered an interview. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process for all candidates who make an application. By opting-in to this scheme, applicants will be disclosing that they have a disability solely for the purpose of the Disability Confident Scheme. The Disability Confident Scheme only guarantees an interview – it does not automatically mean that applicants interviewed will gain employment with Invesco at that time. To apply through the Disability Confident Scheme, you'll need to first ensure you have applied for the role via our external careers page. Following this, you'll need to email us at EMEA-TalentAcquisition@invesco.com confirming your wish to opt-in, alongside your contact details and the title of the role you wish to apply for.

Workplace Information

Full Time: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Job Exempt (Yes / No): Yes
Workplace Model: Office-focused, minimum four full days per week in the office as of October 1, 2025.

Adjustments

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! We want all of our candidates to shine during the application and selection process, so if you need any adjustments to be made, please send an e-mail to emea-talentacquisition@invesco.com. Please include your name, the job you are interested in, and the type of adjustment you need (for example; breaks during your interview, remote interviews, additional time for assessments or other required adjustments).

Commitment to Community and ESG

We partner with charitable organisations globally to make an impact in the communities where we live and work. Our people are encouraged to support the charities they feel most passionate about. We are also committed to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. We serve our clients in this space as a trusted partner both on specific responsible investment product strategies as well as part of our commitment to deliver a superior investment experience.

Recruitment Agencies

Invesco has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly. Invesco will not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired. When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact hiring managers directly.

Regulatory

This position may fall in-scope of one or multiple regimes/directives.