Staff Platform Engineer | Mobile App

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 highly skilled Staff Engineer to join our technical software delivery team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise to guide and mentor a team of engineers, while actively contributing to the team's technical endeavours. As a Technical Authority on DevOps and Platform practices, you will play a crucial role in shaping strategic decisions both within the team and across multiple teams. Your leadership will ensure the delivery of high-quality, high-value software to our customers.

What you'll be doing:

• Teaming up with Technical Leaders to craft long-term strategies that boost product quality, security, performance, observability, and maintainability across engineering teams
• Being the DevOps Guru within and across teams, tackling infrastructure as code, configuration as code, debugging anomalies, managing technical debt, and refining workflows to deliver top-notch software to our customers
• Creating adaptable software that can be quickly iterated upon, allowing us to bring high-quality features to market swiftly. Ensure our solutions are fit for purpose, provide significant business value, meet quality standards, and align with engineering and security best practices
• Leading and coordinating technical efforts across multiple development teams to minimise duplication, enhance collaboration, and provide clear progress updates, ensuring smooth delivery of cross-cutting concerns
• Staying ahead of the curve by continuously researching relevant technologies and identifying opportunities to incorporate them. Using your tech-savvy to survey the market landscape for insights, direction, and vendors, keeping our applications up-to-date, relevant, and efficient
• Evaluating technology alternatives, weighing benefits, costs, and risks. Conducting gap analysis and develop proof of concepts for innovative solutions
• Partnering with the Developer Community to define software development standards that ensure our teams deliver secure, compliant, and audit-ready software without slowing down the development process

Who we're looking for:

• Extensive expertise in CI/CD and IaC tools such as Terraform, ArgoCD, and Helm
• Proven experience in administering and maintaining Kubernetes clusters with essential virtualization skills
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker
• Demonstrated experience as a technical contributor within a development team, including effective participation in code reviews
• Proven track record of contributing to maintainable software features
• Strong analytical skills for debugging and solving complex problems
• Experience in guiding, coaching, and mentoring colleagues
• Solid knowledge of mobile-specific CI/CD tools such as Fastlane, Xcodebuild, Cocoapods, Gradle, and npm

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.