Overview

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Date Posted: 18/08/2025

Location: London

Job Type: Full time

This is a brilliant time to join our business. We are on an exciting growth journey to become the UK’s most loved retirement expert.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of our multidisciplinary, cross-functional, lean delivery squads, focused on rapidly delivering value to our customers through our mobile app and website.

Our ideal candidate will have extensive experience across different technologies and projects, combined with a desire to keep growing their skills – learning new languages, technologies and practices, solving tough problems and mastering areas you already know.

You’ll be comfortable designing and articulating solutions, working closely with product managers and other colleagues to ensure we’re delivering the right thing in the right way. You will lead by example; getting your hands dirty in the code, inspiring your peers & helping to educate your stakeholders.

You are passionate about the craft of software development and contribute to technical and non-technical discussions that help shape the direction of digital product delivery. You are able to work independently, as well as collaboratively, on user stories within an agile delivery environment and are versed in modern software delivery practices. You care about creating quality software that delivers value to consumers, in a thoughtfully pragmatic way.

As well as contributing to production-grade code bases, you will also be keen to help shape the vision for the product, happy to mentor and upskill colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing engineering expertise and experience as a member of a cross functional delivery team, working alongside other engineers, designers, QA, delivery lead and a tech lead
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Choosing the right technology for the job, striving for simplicity
• Providing support for digital products once they are live
• Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers and QAs
• Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end, working within agile principles
• Be an advocate for lean software development, building for what is required now
• Help break large deliverables into small, lean incremental user stories
• Actively contribute to agile ceremonies
• Working collaboratively with other engineers within Just to advance our practice across product squads

Your Experience

• Web/mobile development languages (Typescript, Tailwind and a good understanding of underlying HTML, CSS)
• Development frameworks for Web/app (Next.js (React), Expo (React Native))
• Backend development languages (C#)
• Databases (Mongo)
• Virtualisation and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Azure pipelines)
• Effective source control management (Git)
• Test automation following Test Driven Development Practices including Unit, Integration and end-to-end testing
• UI data layer technologies (GraphQL)
• Supporting a highly-available production system, diagnosing issues raised from logs and observability tooling (Dynatrace), triage and resolution

Company Benefits

• A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
• Private Medical Cover and Income Protection
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme
• Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
• Headspace App access, 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and first aiders on-site
• Employee Funded Benefits via Online Benefits Portal

Why Just?

At Just you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career, whilst making a difference to the lives of those around you. You’ll be part of a company with a strong and distinctive culture.

We’re committed to building a more sustainable business and to progress against Net Zero targets.

Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Just.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology