Software Development Engineer in Test

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. 

We are seeking a talented SDET to join our dynamic technical engineering team. In this exciting role, you'll leverage your quality engineering skills and experience to ensure the delivery of top-notch software across the L&G Group. You'll bring a strategic perspective to our team processes and tooling, enhancing our workflows and ultimately delivering valuable, high-quality software to our customers. Additionally, you'll coach the team and stakeholders to refine their practices, keeping quality at the forefront of everything we do.

What you'll be doing:

• Championing the creation of high-quality, maintainable features within the engineering team, ensuring we deliver exceptional outcomes to our customers efficiently. Focusing on developing solutions that are secure, user-friendly, and accessible, providing significant business value
• Supervising the quality engineering strategy and operations, employing various techniques and tools to uphold Legal and General’s high standards, ensuring everything is well-documented and evidenced
• Collaborating with the engineering team to understand and shape business requirements, ensuring alignment and a shared vision
• Communicating effectively with the team and stakeholders, facilitating informed decision-making and seamless integration
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging the team to inspect and adapt, enhancing effectiveness and happiness, and supporting changes that improve processes and culture
• Fostering a collaborative and respectful team environment, coaching, mentoring, and supporting less experienced team members to develop and grow their skills
• Staying ahead of the curve by conducting ongoing research on relevant application technologies, identifying opportunities to enhance the quality process, and sharing your insights in community forums

Who we're looking for:

• Deep understanding of software testing principles and best practices
• Essential expertise in CI/CD and associated release strategies
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, to drive efficient development processes
• Mastery of TypeScript and the JavaScript ecosystem, with strong skills in React Native and Node.js
• Hands-on experience with React Native Testing Library and automation tools like Detox
• Proven track record as an SDET or similar role, thriving in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience with leading testing frameworks such as Jest, Detox, Cypress, and Playwright
• Comprehensive knowledge of diverse testing techniques, including accessibility, security, end-to-end (E2E), and automation

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.