Your role at a glance
Legal and General Investment Managements’ software engineering function is looking to add a Senior Front-End Engineer to the team. This role will see you work as part of a large department focusing predominantly on projects for the Investment Management business unit with some work occasionally coming from requirements across the rest of the L&G group.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the development of full stack JavaScript applications, utilizing TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
- Designing and implement efficient and scalable APIs, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and deliver solutions that meet business objectives.
- Mentoring and guiding junior developers, promoting best practices and ensuring high code quality.
- Staying up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies, identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Working closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications and actionable tasks.
- Conducting code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, maintainability, and scalability.
- Utilizing containerization technologies such as Docker/Podman and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes for deployment and scaling.
- Applying event-driven architecture principles to build highly scalable and reactive systems.
- Demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and troubleshoot issues in production and development environments.
- Utilizing your experience with database technologies to optimize data storage and retrieval.
What we're looking for
- Extensive experience in TypeScript, React, and Node.js development, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality applications.
- Proficiency with frameworks like Next.js or Remix.
- Strong understanding of API design principles, including RESTful and GraphQL.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture and experience building scalable, reactive systems.
- Solid understanding of various database technologies and their trade-offs.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members.
- Leadership experience, with the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
- Desired experience with Java, Openshift, Angular, and a keen interest in the financial markets.
Benefits
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.
If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.
About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
About the business area
The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.
Our commitments to you
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.
How to find out more
If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact James Sandbrook at james.sandbrook@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sandbrook-04119a115/).
If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.