Engineering Lead, Aberdeen
Savings & investment company
Job no longer available
Savings & investment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable its clients to be better investors.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and mentoring technical teams in an Engineering Lead, Tech Lead, or similar role
- Strong experience in full-stack development, with expertise in React / React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.JS, or equivalent modern technologies
- Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful microservices, with consideration for event-driven architectures where appropriate
- Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, including containerization, serverless functions, and microservices architectures
- Passion for AI, automation, and emerging technologies, with a drive to implement intelligent solutions
- A deep understanding of modern software engineering practices, including test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability
- Ability to mentor and support engineers at different levels, fostering a collaborative learning environment
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Lead, you will play a key role in leading a cross-functional squad, ensuring alignment between business goals, product vision, and technical execution
- You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive innovation, working closely with product managers and UX designers to shape the future of our technology landscape
- With a polyglot mindset, you will focus on solving real-world problems with the best tools and methodologies available
- Your passion for continuous learning, AI-driven automation, and modern cloud architectures will help keep Aberdeen Adviser at the forefront of digital transformation
- Ensure the squad makes the right architectural and technology decisions, leveraging cloud-native, scalable, and secure solutions on Microsoft Azure
- Work closely with Product Managers and UX Designers to translate business and customer needs into technical solutions that deliver measurable impact
- Encourage experimentation with AI, automation, and machine learning to improve engineering efficiency and enhance customer experiences
- Drive test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability best practices, ensuring seamless deployment and monitoring of applications
- Identify opportunities for improvement, refactor code, and propose innovative solutions that enhance engineering effectiveness
- Collaborate across teams to ensure alignment between engineering, product, and business goals
- Advocate for secure coding practices and ensure applications meet performance, reliability, and compliance standards
Application process
- End Date: December 29, 2025
Our take
Aberdeen, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen and Abrdn, is a global investment company helping its clients to save and invest for their futures. It operates three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - and has been operating since way back in 1825.
Nowadays, atop its investment and advice services, the company delivers two platforms for financial advisers. The first, Wrap, enables users to build and manage portfolios for each client. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
Over the years, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by making it simpler, more data-led and to require less admin. This suggests that Aberdeen is keen to keep pace with tech developments across the investment space and position itself as an innovator.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Salary sacrifice pension arrangement
- Private health insurance
- Life Assurance
- 40 days holiday if you work full time
- Dental insurance
- Health assessments
- Critical illness cover
- Will writing
- Power of attorney
- Financial Guidance and Advice
- Holiday buy
- Discounted gym memberships
- Cycle to work
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Electric car lease scheme
- Travel insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Share Plans
- Give As You Earn (GAYE)
- Volunteering
- Long service awards
- Subscription to Interactive Investor
- Subscription to Finimize
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Supportive parental leave policies , delivered regionally (e.g. 26 weeks paid leave in UK for primary and secondary caregivers)
- Employee discount site
- Discounted parking
Company HQ
Edinburgh New Town, Edinburgh, UK
Leadership
Jason Windsor
(CEO)Previously CFO at Persimmon Homes, Group CFO at Aviva and was the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
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