Engineer | Java

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

Are you a talented engineer ready to make a significant impact? Join our dynamic technical engineering team, where you'll use your software engineering skills to create innovative features, squash bugs, tackle technical debt, and streamline our processes. Your efforts will directly contribute to delivering exceptional, high-quality software that delights our customers.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating with the team to develop clean, maintainable features and resolve end-to-end issues, utilising various approaches to ensure we deliver outstanding outcomes to our customers efficiently and effectively
• Contributing to the management of technical debt, ensuring Legal & General’s systems remain secure, resilient, and reliable
• Enhancing and refining testing methodologies within the team to ensure the highest quality customer experience, with a strong focus on security, usability, and accessibility
• Participating in code reviews, emphasising both functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security, to consistently produce high-quality, safe software for our customers
• Engaging in continuous improvement efforts related to security, quality, deployment, monitoring, and operations, enabling the seamless release and operation of safe, performant, and resilient systems in production
• Actively participating in developer team meetings to keep colleagues informed and foster a culture of knowledge sharing. Communicating effectively and collaborate continuously with team members to ensure smooth delivery of development activities within the sprint timebox
• Pursuing ongoing skill development through relevant training in your role discipline

Who we're looking for:

• Proven hands-on experience in building microservices using Java and Spring Boot
• Solid understanding of clean code principles and architecture concepts such as SOLID and Onion
• Demonstrated expertise in crafting large-scale, well-optimised, and maintainable software features, ensuring robust and efficient solutions
• Good grasp of at least one layered backend application architecture, including three-tier, hexagonal, or onion
• Proficiency in test-driven development and familiarity with the testing pyramid.
• Comprehensive understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and other release strategies
• Proven ability to analyse, debug, and resolve highly complex issues, showcasing your critical thinking and technical prowess
• Excellent communication skills, with strong proficiency in both spoken and written English

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• 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. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.