Staff Engineer | Mobile

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Retail 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're looking for an experienced Engineer to join our expanding Mobile Engineering team. In this leadership role, you'll not only apply your strong technical expertise to contribute directly to the team's work, but also guide and mentor fellow engineers to drive successful outcomes. You'll play a key role in shaping the strategic direction of our application design, while identifying opportunities to align and standardise practices across adjacent teams—ensuring we consistently deliver high-quality, high-value software to our customers.

What you'll be doing:

• Championing best practices across engineering teams, identifying opportunities to promote technically sound and scalable solutions that drive efficient and effective customer outcomes
• Serving as a Technical Authority, applying creative problem-solving to transform complex requirements into elegant, maintainable software. Collaborating closely with Solutions Architects to ensure solutions are fit for purpose, deliver meaningful business value, meet quality standards, and align with established engineering principles
• Shaping the strategy for managing technical debt, guiding the team to maintain secure, resilient, and reliable systems that support Legal & General’s long-term technology goals
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging regular reflection and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness, productivity, and overall satisfaction
• Building a collaborative and inclusive team environment, mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers to grow their skills. Promoting open communication and teamwork to ensure smooth and timely delivery within sprint cycles
• Leading the Developer Community, helping define and uphold software development standards that meet security, compliance, and audit requirements—while enabling fast, efficient delivery of high-quality software

Who we're looking for:

• Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of React and its core principles.
• Experienced in building RESTful microservices using JVM-based frameworks like Spring or Node.js.
• Strong grasp of mobile application architecture patterns, including MVP, MVVM, and Flux.
• Well-versed in clean code and architectural best practices, such as SOLID principles, Onion Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and n-Tier design.
• Hands-on experience with React Native, with at least two years of development on a large-scale commercial project.
• Familiar with modern technologies including GraphQL, AWS Cloud Services, and Docker.
• Solid understanding of security best practices across web, API, and mobile platforms.
• Knowledgeable in mobile performance optimization, with a focus on delivering smooth, responsive user experiences.

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
• Healthcare Plan (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 (permanent employees only)
• 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 

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

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.