Senior Software Engineer - Content & Personalisation - #1701654

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL.

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!

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum dependent on experience

About the Role

HL's website is a core part of our digital platform and provides both prospective and current clients with information on our service, the stock market, news, and education. Over the past year we have been migrating to a new cutting-edge headless CMS (Contentful) and are now looking to accelerate this, as well as take it to the next level, building services which allow us to create client experiences with deep personalisation, working seamlessly across devices and channels.

Hargreaves Lansdown is looking for a talented and enthusiastic senior full-stack (React/Typescript/Next.js/Node.js) engineer, that is passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for our clients, to join our team in our mission to transform the investing experience by using advanced personalisation across our client journeys.

This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £149.7bn billion in assets on behalf of more than 1.86 million UK investors. We are a secure, FTSE listed company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 people.

This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

• Build and run full-stack web applications with TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, React.


• Develop and maintain design component library, implementing from Figma designs.


• Strategically plan, 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.


• Strategically improve our release and deployment strategies (CI/CD, gitops, policy).


• Key contributor in work pre-planning - coming up with architectural options including trade-offs.


• 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.


• Pro-actively providing engineering support for existing applications.


• Pro-actively providing coaching & mentoring to peers.

• Experience of developing client and server-side web applications using a range of technologies inc. AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Lambdas, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, React.


• Experience working with Contentful CMS to develop content models and interfacing with the content/asset delivery APIS.


• Experience of developing and maintaining infrastructure as code.


• Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices (Jest, Playwright).


• Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.


• Experience performing code reviews and following up with learning opportunities.


• Experience operating within an Agile framework.


• Experience of working in a DevOps culture.

• Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS (Tailwind/SCSS), JavaScript and Typescript.


• Senior level working knowledge of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, in particular, React, Next.js, Node.js.


• Fluent using Git (GitLab) and building CI / CD pipelines.


• Aware of website performance implications, best practices and other non-functional requirements.


• A working understanding of web accessibility and how to ensure interfaces are accessible


• Ability to write and share runbooks, ADRs, documenting processes.


• Knowledge of excellent development practices to optimise for rapid and continuous delivery of client value.

• Experience working with and implementing MarTech solutions such as Analytics, A/B Testing, Personalisation and Tag Management.


• Experience using Netlify PaaS platform to deploy Next.js applications.

• Excellent collaborator, naturally works well with others across different disciplines in a cross functional team.


• Consistently highly productive delivering complex high-quality features/projects.


• A clear communicator (written and verbal)


• Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving. Proactive in assessing/resolving production issues, and explains them to others.


• Proactively shares knowledge with others at all levels via pairing, talks, coaching etc. Highlights and closes skills gaps in their team with an attitude of continuous learning and development.


• Considers architecture best practices around non functional requirements such as security, scalability and observability.


• Considers risks, dependencies and blockers when scoping work and flags these proactively


• Tenacious, with a pride in what you do.


• 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.

Why Us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on Offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review


• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time


• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment


• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working


• Enhanced parental leave


• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution


• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future


• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)


• Private medical insurance*


• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare


• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme


• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available


• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities


• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks


• Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)


• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

* dependant on role level

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

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