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Overview
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’re the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for pensions, ISAs and investments, with a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also provide impartial content from our award-winning financial journalists, a highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.
Role Purpose
The role is to 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 who is excited about building cloud-based applications to deploy small changes often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications, working closely with product and the wider business.
Responsibilities
* As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area.
* Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability.
* Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream.
* Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solution.
* Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy across all technology disciplines where solutions integrate.
* Contribute towards enabling a culture of technical development and innovation within the team through fit-for-purpose solution design and R&D activities.
* Enable the development of technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, while ensuring high standards.
* Ensure architectural solutions align with controls outlined by the applicable control standards.
* Define change-specific non-functional requirements as part of any solution design or architectural decision.
* Align to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline; manage priorities and raise risks associated with the defined work.
* Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing.
* Identify efficiencies in processes, 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, outlining options and considerations in documented solutions.
* Ensure full-stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions.
* Act as a 'code guardian' to maintain high code quality and support the development of team members to meet standards.
Experience
* Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area.
* Experience delivering change to business-critical, highly available customer-facing platforms.
* A broad technical background with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations.
* Experience delivering change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support.
* Experience delivering change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall.
* Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments.
Technical Skills
* TypeScript and JavaScript development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and training presentation skills.
* React – Client-side SPA frameworks (React DOM, React Native).
* Java / JVM ecosystem – Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams.
* Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis.
* HTML.
* Server-side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc.).
* SEO and SEF.
* Architecture and design skills; distributed systems and architectures (microservices, event-driven, serverless).
* AWS Cloud including step functions, Lambda and general AWS architecture.
* DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes.
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.
Equality and Inclusion
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 where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* IT Services and IT Consulting
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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