Overviewinteractive 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 now 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 your pensions, ISAs and investments, with a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.Role PurposeThe 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 at building cloud based applications to deploy small change 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.ResponsibilitiesAs 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 areaEnsure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capabilitySupport the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery streamWork with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutionsSupport architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrateDirectly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activitiesEnable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefrontEnsure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within teamSupport the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decisionEnsure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriatelySupport the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testingProactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technologyProvide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domainEnsure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solutionEnsure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutionsPerform the role of a "code guardian", primarily ensuring that the quality of code delivered through the team is of the expected high standard, as well as supporting the development of individuals in the team to consistently meet these standardsRequirementsExperienceProven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology areaPrevious experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platformsA broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrationsExperience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live supportExperience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfallExperience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environmentsProven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverablesTechnical SkillsTypeScript and JavaScript development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skillsReact - Client-side SPA frameworks, specifically in the React ecosystem for web and mobile-native (React DOM, React Native)Java / JVM Eco System - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud StreamsKafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and RedisHTMLServer-side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc)SEO and SEFArchitecture and Design SkillsDistributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverlessAWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architectureExpertise in DevOps and containers environments including KubernetesBenefitsGroup Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contributionLife Assurance and Group Income ProtectionPrivate Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidaysStaff Discounts on our investment productsPersonal & Well-being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellnessRetail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailersVoluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestylePlease 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 where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptiveJob detailsSeniority level: Mid-Senior levelEmployment type: Full-timeJob function: Information TechnologyIndustries: IT Services and IT Consulting #J-18808-Ljbffr