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Senior Back-end Engineer

Employer
Legal & General
Location
Hove, East Sussex
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
30 Sep 2019

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Sector
Finance, Financial Services
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Senior Back-end Engineer

Company Info

Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

Department Info

From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Job Duties

What will you do?

As a Back-end Engineer you will work on the foundations of our technology stack, building services and APIs to be consumed by our front-end applications. You will also have the opportunity to work beyond services to improve our security, testing, delivery pipelines and platform.

As part of Group Digital you will be working on modern applications and not directly on archaic, legacy applications. While there are integration points with existing systems, you will not be expected to contribute to those code bases.

You will also provide technical leadership, champion agile practices such as CI/CD and emergent design, and work with other team members to translate high level requirements in to epics, stories and tasks.

How will you work?

Engineers within Group Digital work in small, cross-functional teams of testers, front-end engineers, back-end engineers, product owners, business analysts and Scrum masters. The teams use agile methodologies to iteratively create shippable software, using the workflow which works best for their product. Some teams deploy every few days and some are moving to trunk-based development for continuous deployment.

Our engineers currently work on MacBook Pros or developer-grade Dell laptops running Linux or Windows, so that it’s possible to work from anywhere in any of our offices, or from home when necessary.

What is important to us?

Continuous improvement is the driver behind everything we do - we experiment, we measure and we learn to create better products.

Transparency, honesty and collaboration are crucial, as is the willingness to take ownership of our work.

Communication is also vital to maintaining a healthy atmosphere in our teams. Every member of the team needs to be communicative, supportive and approachable. While we all understand the importance of having quiet, uninterrupted time, your responsibility to your team includes more than just writing code.

Simply, if you’re someone who tries to do the right thing as well as you can and helps your colleagues to do the same, you’ll fit right in.

Skills Required

We don’t like to be prescriptive on technology, if you think there’s a better tool or technology to help you solve a problem, we’d love to hear it. Right now, we’re relying on:

•             Java 8+ with Spring for our application code

•             GraphQL to write our APIs

•             Spring Cloud and Hashicorp tools to help us in creating Cloud Native services

•             Jenkins to run our CI/CD pipelines

•             Puppet or Docker for configuration management

•             Terraform or Kubernetes to manage our deployments

•             AWS to underpin it all

We’re currently experimenting with:

•             Ansible

•             Gitops

•             Istio

•             Kotlin

•             Micronaut

•             Spring WebFlux

Benefits

Whatever your role, Legal & General rewards ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after things that matter to you.

Our employees have a wide range of benefits including:

What do we offer within Group Digital?

•             Substantial conference and personal development budgets

•             Technical training licenses

•             Flexible hours and working arrangements

•             Lunch and learn sessions

•             Mob programming sessions

•             Subsidised professional massages

•             Free fruit every week

Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

  • A generous pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • 27 holiday days
  • Private medical insurance
  • Performance related bonuses
  • A variety of share schemes
  • Discounts on high street and our own great products

Company

At Legal & General, we are so much more than your typical finance business. Today we are a builder, insurer, investor, landlord and city regenerator. Tomorrow? Who knows? Whether you are into numbers, digital, data or people, we offer a wide range of opportunities that will take you on a journey that is anything but familiar.

What's the best thing about working at Legal & General? In addition to being part of a business that enables you to have impact and career progression, you get to actively drive change that matters. From addressing our climate crisis and supporting our ageing population to tackling our affordable housing shortage, you will be able to actively participate in driving societal change. At the same time you will be given the opportunity to grow and enjoy our excellent benefits offering while being part of a team of straightforward, collaborative and purposeful individuals that make your actions and ideas come to life in exciting and meaningful ways.

So take a closer look. Get involved. Be curious. You may be surprised!

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Company info
Website
Telephone
01273 375 524
Location
Pod 6, Ground Floor
The Droveway, City Park,
Hove
Sussex
BN3 7PY
GB

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