Senior Software Engineer, Hargreaves Lansdown
Full Stack Engineer, React
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The UK's number one investment and savings platform for private investors
Posted today
The UK's number one investment and savings platform for private investors
1001+ employees
Posted today
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future.
Role
Who you are
- We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!
- Strong ownership mentality
- A passion for building intuitive and engaging customer experiences
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Comfortable working within modern frontend ecosystems and distributed systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Curiosity and willingness to learn across the full stack
- A proactive approach to identifying usability, performance and accessibility improvements
- React
- TypeScript
- Vite
- TanStack Query
- Zustand
- Tailwind CSS
- React Testing Library
- Playwright
- Modern component-based architecture patterns
- Building customer-facing web applications
- GraphQL is an increasingly important part of our future architecture and customer experience platform. We'd particularly welcome candidates with experience in:
- Consuming GraphQL APIs within frontend applications
- Building GraphQL-driven user experiences
- Working with GraphQL schemas and API contracts
- Integrating frontend applications with GraphQL and REST services
- Developing applications in API-first environments
- Understanding of backend architectures and API integration patterns
- Node.js exposure
- REST API integration
- Experience working across frontend and backend technologies
- Automated testing
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub or GitLab workflows
- Modern software delivery practices
- Code reviews and collaborative development
Desirable
- Micro-frontend architectures
- Module Federation
- Performance optimisation techniques
- Frontend observability and monitoring
- Design systems and shared component libraries
- Contentful or other Headless CMS platforms
- Typesense
- Elasticsearch
- LaunchDarkly or feature flagging platforms
- OAuth and authentication flows
- Analytics integration
- Grafana or similar observability platforms
- Accessibility-first development
- AWS
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- Infrastructure as Code concepts
- Financial Services experience
- Exposure to PHP-based platforms and services
- Experience working in large-scale digital product organisations
What the job involves
- Full Stack Senior Software Engineer with a strong frontend focus, working across React, TypeScript, GraphQL and modern frontend architecture patterns
- You'll help build customer journeys that enable clients to discover investments, compare savings products, search financial instruments and complete account opening and transfer journeys across the Discover platform
- We're expanding our Discover engineering team and are looking for a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer with a strong frontend focus to help shape and evolve one of our key customer discovery platforms
- You'll work primarily on modern React applications and customer-facing experiences, whilst remaining comfortable contributing to backend services and APIs when required
- This is an opportunity to work with modern frontend technologies, GraphQL-driven experiences, micro-frontend architectures and customer journeys that play a key role in our digital strategy
- We're looking for engineers who are passionate about creating exceptional user experiences, take ownership of their work, and enjoy collaborating across product, design and engineering disciplines
- You'll help build customer journeys that enable clients to discover investment opportunities, compare savings products, search across financial instruments and complete account opening and transfer journeys
- Design, develop and maintain customer-facing applications across the Discover platform
- Build responsive, accessible and high-performing user experiences using React and TypeScript
- Develop and enhance features across multiple frontend applications and shared component libraries
- Consume and integrate GraphQL and REST APIs within modern frontend architectures
- Contribute to the evolution of our micro-frontend and platform architecture
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver customer value
- Take ownership of features from design through to production deployment
- Support CI/CD pipelines and frontend delivery processes
- Drive engineering improvements, automation and operational excellence
- Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews and architecture conversations
- You'll be comfortable taking ownership of features from design through to production, collaborating closely with design, product and engineering teams, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve both the customer experience and the way we work
- You'll contribute to the evolution of Discover by delivering intuitive, reliable and accessible user experiences, supporting engineering excellence, and helping shape the future of one of our key customer-facing platforms
Application process
- End Date: August 21, 2026
Our take
Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's number one investment platform for private investors, trusted by 2M people to help manage their money. Founded back in 1981 in a spare bedroom, it's grown into a powerhouse, and with more than £170B in assets under its administration, it's become the biggest name in DIY investing in the country.
The company offers a wide range of services that include Stocks and Shares ISAs, pensions (SIPPs), savings accounts, and a market-leading investment app, making it easy for everyday people to invest, save, and better plan for their retirement.
Recently, HL was taken private in a £5.4B deal, with new leadership aiming to modernise and future-proof the business. And despite more competition from digital challengers, it continues to thrive, adding more customers, launching new features, and paying strong dividends. On top of that, it's got over 40 years of experience and a forward-thinking team driving it towards even more success.
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Company benefits
- Generous Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Up to 19% Pension
- Private Medical Insurance*
- Health Cash Plan
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance (4x Salary)
- Additional Holiday Purchase
Company HQ
Canon's Marsh, Bristol, UK
Leadership
Richard Flint
(CEO)Previously, Richard spent over 5 years at Sky Betting & Gaming as CEO and an Executive Chair. Prior to that, he spent over 13 years at Sky as a Managing Director. Now, he is an Investor and Chairperson at a number of companies.
Mohamed Ait Si Brahim
(Group CTO)Mohamad is also a Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Previously, he spent over 7 years at Profile Pensions as CTO. Prior to that, he was a VP of Engineering at OpenGamma and Head of Market Risk Technology at LSEG.
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