Senior Software Engineer - Identity

Excited to grow your career? Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown. We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you! About the role TBC Role Responsibilities We are looking for someone that is passionate about delivering market-leading client experiences, with prior experience implementing Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions being a benefit. Build and run Cloud-native applications with Typescript and React. Develop internal services deploying to AWS, using both serverless and container-based infrastructure. Establish and maintain a high degree of automated test coverage for those services. Write high quality, secure and performant code. Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the quality, security and performance and the CI/CD processes. Document all solutions, as well as driving architectural decisions within the team. Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team. Cultivate strong working relationships both within the team and across HL as a whole. Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team. Providing engineering support for existing applications when necessary. Proactively coaching & mentoring to peers. Comfortable engaging with external stakeholders, such as security, enterprise architecture and downstream consumers of your team's services. Evangelise best practices and assist the team in avoiding anti-patterns. Experience Professional experience with Typescript, AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience developing and maintaining React-based JavaScript SPAs. Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices. Experience of onboarding, integrating and managing 3rd party platforms. Understanding of Microservices architectures and the principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking. Experience operating within Agile development teams. Knowledge Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Typescript. Excellent working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including React, Hono or equivalent. Understanding of the OAuth 2 Framework and Open ID Connect flows (OIDC). Use of JSON Web Tokens and the concepts of asymmetric cryptography. Fluent using Git (GitLab/GitHub), as well as understanding concepts related to CI/CD and Trunk Based Development. Awareness of website performance and accessibility best practices. Advocate of excellent development practices including test-driven development, pairing and mobbing. Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation. Desirable Hands on experience with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, formally ForgeRock. Experience of GraphQL and related technologies. Ability to understand Java and/or PHP code. Skills Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills. Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving. Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative. Effective time management. Attributes Comfortable with helping and consulting others. Collaborates with others over significant decisions and able to articulate effectively. Is approachable, friendly, with a consistently positive, constructive attitude whilst performing day-to-day activities. Promotes the culture of Hargreaves Lansdown in terms of quality, drive, entrepreneurial activity and commitment to outstanding client service. Pragmatic and focused on delivery. Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally. Tenacious, with a pride in what you do. Have a continuous improvement mindset. Desire to contribute to the organisation’s success and uphold its exceptional reputation. 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 out patient care Health screening programme Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider s and w ellness c oach sessions Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches T wo 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.