Software Engineer (React/Typescript/React Native)
Who we are: interactive investor is an award‑winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We have been helping investors for nearly 30 years, making us the UK's number one flat‑fee investment platform with assets under administration approaching £75bn and over 450,000 customers. We offer a secure home for pensions, ISAs and investments, a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, and impartial, expert content from award‑winning financial journalists.
Role Purpose: Design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a developer excited about building cloud‑based applications that can be updated frequently.
Responsibilities
* Provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with strategic alignment of the technology area.
* Ensure smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability.
* Support discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for the delivery stream.
* Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to existing solutions.
* Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy across all technology disciplines where solutions integrate.
* Directly contribute towards enabling a culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit‑for‑purpose solution design and R&D activities.
* Enable development of the technical skills within the squad through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working.
* Ensure architectural solutions are aligned to controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within the team.
* Support the definition of change‑specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision.
* Ensure clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline and raise any risks appropriately.
* Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing.
* Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology.
* Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership of delegated subsets of the technical domain.
* Apply risk considerations to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting options as part of any documented solution.
* Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions.
Requirements
Experience
* Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area.
* Previous experience delivering change to business‑critical, highly available customer‑facing platforms.
* A broad technical background with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations.
* Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support.
* Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall.
* Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud‑based environments.
* Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables.
Architecture and Design Skills
* Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event‑driven architectures and serverless.
* AWS Cloud including Step Functions, Lambda and general AWS architecture.
* Expertise in DevOps and container environments including Kubernetes.
Excellent software development, software architecture and technical delivery skills in
* TypeScript and JavaScript Development including Domain‑Driven Design, Test‑Driven Development.
* Client‑side SPA frameworks, specifically in the React ecosystem for web and mobile‑native (React DOM, React Native).
* Server‑side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc).
* Building accessible semantic HTML.
* SEO and SEF.
Benefits
* Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution.
* Life Assurance and Group Income Protection.
* Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa.
* 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
* Staff discounts on our investment products.
* Personal & Well‑being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness.
* Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high‑street and online retailers.
* Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Other
Industries
* IT Services and IT Consulting
Please note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we’re currently receiving, if you haven’t been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.
interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
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