Professional experience with Typescript, AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience developing and maintaining React-based JavaScript SPAs
Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices
Experience of onboarding, integrating and managing 3rd party platforms
Understanding of Microservices architectures and the principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking
Experience operating within Agile development teams
Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Typescript
Excellent working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including React, Hono or equivalent
Understanding of the OAuth 2 Framework and Open ID Connect flows (OIDC)
Use of JSON Web Tokens and the concepts of asymmetric cryptography
Fluent using Git (GitLab/GitHub), as well as understanding concepts related to CI/CD and Trunk Based Development
Awareness of website performance and accessibility best practices
Advocate of excellent development practices including test-driven development, pairing and mobbing
Able to write, assist in writing or reviewing technical documentation
(Desirable) Hands on experience with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, formally ForgeRock
(Desirable) Experience of GraphQL and related technologies
(Desirable) Ability to understand Java and/or PHP code
Skills
Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills
Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving
Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative
Effective time management
Comfortable with helping and consulting others
Collaborates with others over significant decisions and able to articulate effectively
Is approachable, friendly, with a consistently positive, constructive attitude whilst performing day-to-day activities
Promotes the culture of Hargreaves Lansdown in terms of quality, drive, entrepreneurial activity and commitment to outstanding client service
Pragmatic and focused on delivery
Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally
Tenacious, with a pride in what you do
Have a continuous improvement mindset
Desire to contribute to the organisation’s success and uphold its exceptional reputation
What the job involves
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Identity team at Hargreaves Lansdown. As part of a major transformation programme, you’ll help deliver the migration of our identity services to a new strategic platform, shaping how millions of customers securely access our products and services, as well as making delivery easier for internal teams
We are looking for someone that is passionate about delivering market-leading client experiences, with prior experience implementing Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions being a benefit
Build and run Cloud-native applications with Typescript and React
Develop internal services deploying to AWS, using both serverless and container-based infrastructure
Establish and maintain a high degree of automated test coverage for those services
Write high quality, secure and performant code
Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the quality, security and performance and the CI/CD processes
Document all solutions, as well as driving architectural decisions within the team
Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team
Cultivate strong working relationships both within the team and across HL as a whole
Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team
Providing engineering support for existing applications when necessary
Proactively coaching & mentoring to peers
Comfortable engaging with external stakeholders, such as security, enterprise architecture and downstream consumers of your team's services
Evangelise best practices and assist the team in avoiding anti-patterns
