Software Engineer, Hargreaves Lansdown

• 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
• 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
• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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

• End Date: November 28, 2025