Senior Engineer (AWS, Typescript, NodeJS and Java) at LegalAndGeneral

London, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

31 Dec, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, AWS SDK, AWS CDK, Python, React, HTML, CSS, Java, Spring, Terraform, CloudFormation, Microservices, CI/CD, Agile

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Company Description 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. L&G Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses. Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products. We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas. Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. Job Description We are seeking a talented Senior Engineer to join our dynamic and expanding engineering team. In this role, you will leverage your software engineering expertise to develop innovative features, resolve complex bugs, and manage technical debt. Additionally, you will apply a strategic perspective to enhance our team’s processes and tools, ultimately driving the delivery of high-quality, valuable software to our customers. What you'll be doing: Developing and maintaining robust features and resolving end-to-end issues with a keen understanding of various approaches, ensuring we deliver exceptional outcomes to our customers. Our solutions are fit for purpose, provide significant business value, adhere to quality standards, and align with standard engineering practices Contributing to the strategic management of technical debt within the team, ensuring Legal & General’s systems remain secure, resilient, and reliable Analysing and defining test approaches within your team to guarantee the highest quality customer experience, with a strong emphasis on security, usability, and accessibility Participating in code reviews with a focus on both functional and non-functional requirements, considering performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security to consistently build high-quality software for our customers Enthusiastically advocating for inspection and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness and happiness, supporting changes that improve processes and culture, ensuring the team remains happy, productive, and efficient Building a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and engagement within the team. Coaching, mentoring, and supporting less experienced engineers to help them develop and grow their skills Conducting ongoing research on relevant application technologies and identifying opportunities to incorporate them into our applications. Sharing your findings and insights in developer forums to foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation Qualifications Who we're looking for: Extensive knowledge of the following is essential: JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, AWS SDK & CDK, Python, React, HTML and CSS, Java, Spring, Terraform or CloudFormation Hands on experience building serverless applications in AWS Hands on experience building microservices in Java using Spring Boot Excellent understanding of best practices in the pragmatic application of clean code and clean architecture principles & design patterns A proficient understanding of distributed systems A proficient understanding of software testing Competency in CI/CD and associated release strategies Competency in Agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 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 the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart Additional Information 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. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. 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. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain robust features while resolving end-to-end issues to deliver exceptional outcomes. Contribute to the strategic management of technical debt and ensure systems remain secure, resilient, and reliable.