AJ Bell is hiring a
Software Engineer, Remote - United Kingdom

Summary

The job description is for a developer position at Touch by AJ Bell, a next-generation investment platform. The role involves software development lifecycle, collaboration, and product improvement. Required skills include programming, problem-solving, understanding design patterns, creating secure code, and taking ownership of tasks.

Requirements

• Excellent programming and problem solving skills
• Understanding of relevant software design patterns and paradigms, such as OOAD, DDD, MVC, microservices, containers/orchestration or event-driven architecture
• Experience in creating performant, scalable, secure and well tested code
• You take ownership of tasks and problems, clearing roadblocks and pulling in other people to help when needed

Responsibilities

• Engage in the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering with stakeholders, working as a team to build and test features, managing deployment and supporting the service in production
• Work as part of a distributed team made up of self-motivated and collaborative individuals. Much of our communication is remote and async so good communication skills are key
• Iteratively make improvements to a new product while aligning to our mutually agreed design and architectural principles
• Always looking for ways we can improve our product, processes and practices. We don’t like friction and waste
• Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment. We are huge proponents of automation
• Working outside of your specialism when needed

Preferred Qualifications

Prior knowledge of Go, gRPC/proto, PostgreSQL, The HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Terraform and Vault), Docker, TypeScript and Vue, Dart and Flutter is beneficial to the role

Benefits

• Starting salary of £40,000 - £80,000 (Depending on experience)
• Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike loan scheme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Death in service scheme
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Paid time off for volunteer work
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Professional qualification support
• Talent management programmes
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
• Hybrid working: At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office