Back End Technical Lead - Bristol, United Kingdom - The Curve Group

The Curve Group
The Curve Group
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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Position:
Back End Technical Lead


Company:
Hargreaves Lansdown


Salary:
Up to £70k + attractive bonus


Location:
Hybrid/Bristol (attendance flexible on location)


Contract:
Permanent, full-time


Excited to develop your career with a market leader?
Our mission is to 'help people save and invest with confidence'.

We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown (HL).


About the role


As an Engineering Squad Lead at HL, you'll be responsible for leading a software engineering squad within Pensions Platform Team.

You will be working on technology initiatives that require delivery of high quality, secure and resilient software, in a sustainableand predictable way.

We are always looking forward and constantly striving to use the best and most innovative solutions available.


Responsibilities

  • Responsible for writing high quality code adhering to agreed team and regulatory standards, and the review of others code
  • Working collaboratively with the team to help deliver significant new features for the business
  • To ensure existing and newly developed solutions are reliable, secure, performant and maintainable
  • Maintaining awareness of current secure coding practices and ensuring code produced is in line with these
  • Responsible for developing and evidencing automated tests alongside code produced
  • 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 developing both technical and interpersonal skills (weighted towards technical)
  • Providing coaching & mentoring to peers

Skills and experience

Essential

  • Strong knowledge and understanding of Java, particularly the Spring framework
  • Backend service development
  • A practical appreciation of database design
  • Working with automated build pipelines / continuous integration
  • Objectorientated programming (OOP) model principles
  • At least 2 years of Java development, including Java 8 and at least 4 years development experience overall
  • Working in an Agile environment
  • Spring and Spring Boot
  • A practical appreciation of database design
and working practices

  • A mindset of continuous improvement

Desirable

  • Kubernetes/Docker
  • AWS
  • Experience in working with automation
  • Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines
  • Experience coaching and mentoring other developers

Working schedule
9am to 5:30pm with one hour for lunch


Why HL?
Here at Hargreaves Lansdown, 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 1day additional Christmas closure time
  • Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
  • Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
  • 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)
  • Health care cash plans including optical, dental, and out patientcare
  • 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
- up to 30 days depending on role level & increasing with length of service
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