Software Engineer (Content)

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.