Engineer

Company Description Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. L&G Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses. Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products. We are the UK's number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers - all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club - the UK's largest - and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas. Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. Job Description We're seeking a skilled and passionate Engineer to join our dynamic and expanding Mobile Engineering team. In this role, you'll leverage your software engineering expertise to develop impactful features, resolve bugs, tackle technical debt, and continuously enhance our development processes. Your contributions will play a key role in delivering high-quality, valuable software experiences to our customers. What you'll be doing: Collaborating as part of a high-performing team to design and deliver clean, maintainable features. Tackling end-to-end issues with a thoughtful understanding of multiple approaches, ensuring we deliver outstanding outcomes to our customers efficiently and effectively. Actively managing and reducing technical debt to help maintain secure, resilient, and reliable systems across Legal & General's technology landscape. Enhancing and evolving testing strategies within the team to ensure a seamless customer experience, with a strong focus on security, usability, and accessibility. Participating in code reviews with a comprehensive view of both functional and non-functional requirements-such as performance, maintainability, resiliency, and security-to uphold our commitment to building high-quality, safe software. Driving continuous improvement in the team's practices around security, quality, deployment, monitoring, and operations, enabling us to release and operate performant, resilient systems with confidence. Engaging actively in team discussions and ceremonies, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration. Communicating effectively to support smooth and timely delivery of development work within each sprint Continuously growing your skills by undertaking relevant training in your role disciplinr Qualifications Who we're looking for: Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a couple of years of hands-on experience, gained from either front-end or back-end development roles Deep expertise in React, with a strong grasp of its core principles and ecosystem Experience in developing RESTful microservices, using either JVM-based technologies or Node.js Solid understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and the testing pyramid, with practical experience applying these methodologies Familiar with Agile practices, particularly Scrum, and proficient in using Git, Git Flow, and CI/CD pipelines Knowledge of security best practices, including web, API, and mobile application security. Good understanding of mobile application architecture patterns, such as MVP, MVVM, and Flux Well-versed in clean code principles and clean architecture, with a focus on writing maintainable and scalable software Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes Generous pension contribution Life assurance Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only) At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday Competitive family leave Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only) There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart Additional Information At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn't matter if you don't meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. "videos":{"title":"Videos To Watch","urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djTs2V4JUFs"]}}},