Job Specifications
Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.
Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.
We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.
Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.
Job Description
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Engineer to join our expanding software development team. In this pivotal role, the Staff Engineer will leverage extensive skills and experience to lead and mentor a team of highly talented engineers. With exceptional technical expertise, the Staff Engineer will drive the team's projects to successful completion. This role is crucial in ensuring the team's success, shaping the strategic vision of application design, and identifying opportunities to standardise approaches across adjacent teams.
What you'll be doing:
Spearheading the development of scalable, secure, and well-architected products and platforms, ensuring we deliver exceptional outcomes to our customers efficiently
Acting as a multi-faceted leader by leveraging influence, technical expertise, and organisational authority to align with the long-term goals of the organisation
Engaging in applied engineering by transforming strategic direction into tangible technology and viable engineering approaches. Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, provide business value, adhere to quality standards, and align with standard engineering practices and L&G SSDLC policies
Overseeing technical work across multiple development teams to reduce duplication, enhance collaboration, and provide clarity on progress, ensuring smooth delivery of cross-cutting concerns
Partnering with and enabling engineering leaders to fulfill the division's strategic direction. Mentoring engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their independence
Conducting research on relevant technologies and identify opportunities to incorporate them as appropriate. Applying knowledge of technology options and survey the external market landscape for insights, direction, and vendors to keep our applications up-to-date, relevant, and efficient, delivering value to the business and end-users.
Addressing technical blockers and identify process improvements within your domain. Actively seeking out and resolving impediments to team efficiency ("technical debt"), proposing and implementing solutions to enable faster iteration.
Guiding and collaborating with the Developer Community to define software development standards that meet security, compliance, and audit requirements without hindering the software development process.
Qualifications
Who we're looking for:
Back End Staff Engineer, with proficient knowledge of:
Software testing frameworks and strategies is essential
CI/CD and associated release strategies is essential
Secure development strategies is essential
Agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, is essential.
Microservices patterns/ framework
Technical Knowledge of:
Java or other JVM languages
Angular or other Javascript frameworks
AWS
Experience in contributing and influencing technical direction is essential
Experience in setting technical direction and providing effective engineering perspectives
Experience of guiding, coaching and mentoring colleagues is essential
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
Generous pension contribution
Life assurance
Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
Competitive family leave
Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Additional Information
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About the Company
Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.
Our three divisions enable us to carefully invest capital over the long term in a responsible way that delivers returns to shareholders while doing good. Along with growing our pension risk transfer business, our strategy focuses on asset management as the cornerstone of our business, including by opening up private markets to more of our clients. Meanwhile, our retail business is focused on building lifelong relationships with customers as...
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