Excited to grow your career?
Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!
About the role
Salary: Up to £90,000 dependent on experience
Do you have a passion for building outstanding digital experiences? Are you looking for the next step in your career?
HL’s website is a core part of our digital platform and provides both prospective and current clients with information on our service, the stock market, news, and education. Over the past year we have been migrating to a new cutting-edge headless CMS (Contentful) and are looking to accelerate this, as well as take it to the next level, building services which allow us to create client experiences with deep personalisation, working seamlessly across devices and channels.
HL are looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager, passionate about delivering market-leading digital experiences for our clients, to join our team in our mission to transform the investing experience by using advanced personalisation across our client journeys.
This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £180 billion in assets on behalf of more than 2 million UK investors.
This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Leading a cross-functional product engineering team
2. Supporting the growth of our Software Engineers
3. Driving technical delivery, continuous improvement and innovation
4. Partnering closely with technical/business leaders and teams to understand business processes and data flows/challenges/opportunities, and design solutions to deliver better outcomes for our clients and colleagues
5. Recruiting and shaping an existing team to be a high-performing set of talented and experienced professionals
6. Ownership of services under your team - maintenance, support, security and continuous improvement
7. Establish a culture that is driven by purpose and excellence, and a team that is motivated to make a difference
About You
8. Strong technology leadership experience within complex organisations
9. You set guard rails around scope, technology, quality, NFRs, and best practices, then empower your team to find the best solution within these guard rails
10. You enjoy working in a product and client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders
11. Strong understanding of full stack engineering best practices including CICD and Observability
12. Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one-team mindset
13. Strong people focus – you prioritise your team’s L&D, understand how to keep your team motivated and build a strong culture based on psychological safety
14. Able to manage ambiguity and seek clarity through collaboration and communication
15. Strong software engineering background, able to define and communicate complex architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Technology
16. HTML / CSS / TypeScript / React / Next.js / Node.js
17. AWS / Netlify / Lambdas / Terraform IaC
18. Contentful CMS
19. Vitest / Playwright / Storybook
20. Analytics, A/B Testing, Personalisation and Tag Management
Interview Process
This will be a three-stage interview process, comprising an initial informal call with the hiring manager, followed by two structured interviews.
Working Schedule
37.5 hours flexible, based upon meeting business demands with occasional onsite visits at the Bristol office
Why us?
Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
21. Discretionary annual bonus*and annual pay review
22. 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
23. Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
24. Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
25. Enhanced parental leave
26. Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
27. Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
28. Private medical insurance*
29. Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
30. Health screening programme
31. <- confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
32. Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
33. Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
34. Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
35. Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year