We have an exciting new opportunity for a Staff Engineer to join our expanding software development team. In this pivotal role, the Staff Engineer will leverage extensive skills and experience to lead and mentor a team of highly talented engineers. With exceptional technical expertise, the Staff Engineer will drive the team's projects to successful completion. This role is crucial in ensuring the team's success, shaping the strategic vision of application design, and identifying opportunities to standardise approaches across adjacent teams.
What you'll be doing:
1. Spearheading the development of scalable, secure, and well-architected products and platforms, ensuring we deliver exceptional outcomes to our customers efficiently.
2. Acting as a multi-faceted leader by leveraging influence, technical expertise, and organisational authority to align with the long-term goals of the organisation.
3. Engaging in applied engineering by transforming strategic direction into tangible technology and viable engineering approaches. Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, provide business value, adhere to quality standards, and align with standard engineering practices and L&G SSDLC policies.
4. Overseeing technical work across multiple development teams to reduce duplication, enhance collaboration, and provide clarity on progress, ensuring smooth delivery of cross-cutting concerns.
5. Partnering with and enabling engineering leaders to fulfill the division's strategic direction. Mentoring engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their independence.
6. Conducting research on relevant technologies and identifying opportunities to incorporate them as appropriate. Applying knowledge of technology options and surveying the external market landscape for insights, direction, and vendors to keep our applications up-to-date, relevant, and efficient, delivering value to the business and end-users.
7. Addressing technical blockers and identifying process improvements within your domain. Actively seeking out and resolving impediments to team efficiency ('technical debt'), proposing and implementing solutions to enable faster iteration.
8. Guiding and collaborating with the Developer Community to define software development standards that meet security, compliance, and audit requirements without hindering the software development process.
Qualifications - Who we're looking for:
1. Full Stack Staff Engineer, with proficient knowledge of: Software testing frameworks and strategies (essential), CI/CD and associated release strategies (essential), Secure development strategies (essential), Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban (essential), Microservices patterns/frameworks.
2. Technical Knowledge of: Java or other JVM languages, Angular or other Javascript frameworks, AWS.
3. Experience in contributing to and influencing technical direction (essential).
4. Experience in setting technical direction and providing effective engineering perspectives.
5. Experience guiding, coaching, and mentoring colleagues (essential).
Benefits:
* The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
* Generous pension contribution, life assurance, private medical insurance (permanent employees only).
* At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays; 26 days after 2 years’ service; option to buy and sell holiday.
* Competitive family leave, electric car scheme, discounts, redesigned workspaces focused on wellbeing.
At L&G, we believe in generating positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. Join us for a welcoming, inclusive culture with opportunities to collaborate across diverse backgrounds and experiences. We support flexible working options and value what you bring to the role beyond just meeting every criterion.
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