Are you passionate about using your engineering background to inspire and develop a culture of innovation? Are you excited about the opportunity to develop your technical skills in an investment management environment, with full exposure to both front and back office? 

We have an excellent Senior Software Engineer role within the engineering function at Legal and General Investment Management! You will work within an Agile (Scrum/SAFe) project team focused on hands on development as well taking the lead within a team of developers, sharing common processes and tooling. The team develops across a broad set of technologies and platforms, including: Java microservices, OpenShift, Kafka, Apache Nifi, Camunda, Jenkins, CI/CD and integrating with both internal and external platform partners.

• Taking the Lead in engaging, motivating and nurturing other developers to understand and maximise their full potential, ensuring high levels of engagement, professionalism and contribution to the business
• Implementing features, enhancements and improvements to Java-based applications in an agile environment
• Designing and architecting robust and scalable systems using microservice and event-based architectures
• Taking ownership for delivering your changes from test through to production environments by utilising CD deployment pipelines
• Ensuring there are robust technical design, review and standards for the development of Java microservices, internally facing web front ends and Postgres/MongoDB databases
• Ensuring the codebase stays at a high standard by participating in code reviews, writing unit tests, refactoring, security hardening etc
• Reviewing and setting standards for Unit Testing for all coding and then providing support to any Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing as deemed appropriate
• Contributing to the culture of innovation and continuous improvement by implementing new ideas

• We are looking for lots of technical experience in Java (Springboot/ Quarkus) and Kafka
• Kubernetes and Docker experience is key, it would be great if you also have some Angular experience
• A proven track record working in an agile environment, with a solid background in scaled enterprise microservice development
• Fantastic communication skills – you love using your leadership capabilities to motivate and cultivate a high performing engineering team
• Significant hands-on experience in integrating systems and database design and build
• You’ll have designed and implemented solutions for highly transactional business processes and have a clear understanding of how such solutions are supported in production
•  Experience with on-premise and cloud implementation patterns, as well as designing and building for a cloud environment
• An understanding of application and integration patterns and event-based systems design
• You can see the bigger strategic picture, with the ability to identify opportunities for improvement and articulate them to stakeholders

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 27 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.