Software Engineer

We are Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), the asset-management arm of Legal & General Group. Our purpose is to create a better future through responsible investing. We strive to achieve this through a strong sense of partnership with our clients, working together to achieve positive long-term outcomes. We draw on industry-leading expertise to innovate constantly across public and private assets, index and active strategies. And we are a responsible investor, rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. 

We are truly international, present where our clients need us. Our teams around the world are highly dedicated, professional and collaborative and we draw strength from our diversity of talent. We are clear on what we stand for and our commitment to inclusivity anchors our behaviours. 

We’re recruiting for a a brilliant problem-solving software engineer to work on maintenance and small change around our largest Front Office Portfolio Management System; one in the Solutions space that is responsible for around £750B worth of AUM.

The main technology stack used is C# /.NET on the desktop with work ongoing to transform to a web-app & service-based architecture running on our container platforms. The purpose of this role is to support the efficient running of the growing and evolving platform and along the way the ideal candidate will need to be someone who loves finding and fixing problems and leaving things better than they found them. 

What you'll be doing:

• Being responsible for the maintenance and support of one or more in-house platforms, working with various projects and programmes to onboard large-scale change, as well as to deliver small change as required 
• Working to keep our software, infrastructure, and hardware estate up to date with upgrades and new versions to prevent obsolescence  
• Ensuring that code is kept in line with standards and to quality measures (recorded and enforced by SonarQube) 
• Collaborating with other teams across the product lifecycle, including DevOps, Platform and Site Reliability Engineers, as well as Production Services / Tech Ops and 3rd party vendors 
• Collaborating with IT Security and Risk to ensure that vulnerabilities are understood and remediated accordingly 
• Communicating and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders within IT and the business 
• Being able to debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the technical stack and resolve complex performance issues 
• Being responsible for periodically running the daily data load, co-ordinating tasks across the team 
• Being proactive in identifying areas of improvement in the daily processes and providing solutions 

Who we're looking for:

• C#/.NET. SQL (SQL Server & PostgreSQL). 
• Recent versions of Angular. Kafka, Git, Visual Studio would be beneficial. Should be familiar with an issue management system like JIRA and Confluence.
• Knowledge of container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift/Fargate) and AWS native cloud services useful. 
• Expert level developing in C# / .NET 
• Strong SQL experience 
• Strong in understanding of Front-End development using Angular and/or other frameworks 
• Experience working in a Front Office / Asset Management environment useful 
• Experience supporting developed applications 
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment 

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 organisation, 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’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive 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. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

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