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About the role
As a Software Engineer in Payments, you’ll be responsible for providing new features and maintaining existing codebase within Payments Product Team.The product is focused on building and maintaining payment solutions.
You will be working on technology initiatives that require delivery of high quality, secure and resilient software, in a sustainable and predictable way.
We are always looking forward and constantly striving to use the best and most innovative solutions available.
This is an opportunity to join the UK’s number one investment services company, managing over £149.7 billion in assets for more than 1.86 million UK investors. As a secure, and highly respected brand, HL offers you the chance to make a genuine impact within one of the UK's most innovative and digitally focused businesses.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Writing high quality Java code;
- Working collaboratively as part of a Agile team;
- Suggesting your ideas, participating in technology choices, presenting your solutions;
- Actively contributing to the Agile process (stand ups, retrospectives, etc.) and the overall output of the team.
Essential Skills
- Very good knowledge on Java, preferably the recent versions;
- Hands-on experience with design patterns and programming best practices;
- Have a mindset of continuous improvement in everything you do;
- Solid commercial programming experience;
- Comfortable working in a Scrum/Agile team;
- Developing secure & maintainable code;
- Finding innovate solutions to problems;
Must Have
- Java 17+
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- AWS (Fargate, SNS/SQS)
- Gradle
- Design patterns
- Sync & async integration patterns (REST, messaging)
- GIT
Nice to have
- AWS
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Health screening programme
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
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.
What We Do
We’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol, where we now employ over 1,700 people. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. Today we're trusted by over 1.7 million clients.
Our service allows clients to bring all their ISAs, pensions, SIPPS, and savings into one easy to manage place, allowing them to be in control.
