Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to work on our Supporter Revenue stream within the Product & Engineering department. The Supporter Revenue stream currently comprises 3 teams whose responsibilities align to guide readers through the Supporter lifecycle: from being encouraged to support whilst reading our journalism, to picking the best product for their needs from our portfolio, to providing their payment details, onboarding and transacting successfully, before experiencing an enriched digital experience or receiving their newspaper posted through the door a few weeks later. Supporting those 3 teams is a Platform team that ensures the billing, payments, customer service and data processes run smoothly and efficiently. The tech stack comprises TypeScript, Scala and React-based web apps, hosted within AWS and Salesforce ServiceCloud infrastructure, to principally orchestrate between the APIs of Zuora, Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal, Braze, BigQuery and mParticle SaaS platforms. We work collaboratively with designers, user experience architects, and other developers in the team. The majority of our code is openly available on GitHub, and some of our projects are widely used throughout the Open Source community. About the Role Support a group of developers with their technical and personal development, providing regular feedback and guidance. Coach developers on areas for development, celebrating achievements and recognising their strengths. Use your knowledge and expertise as an experienced developer to provide hands-on support to the team. Effectively communicate your team's goals and vision. Ensure effective collaboration with stakeholders. Ensure your team balances product delivery and technical maintenance, prioritising your team's workload to ensure effectiveness. Work with engineering managers across P&E to evolve our development, recruitment and mentoring practices. About You: Demonstrated experience managing a team of developers/engineers with experience gained in marketing, finance or customer services Extensive experience as a developer with a variety of experience across domains and technologies, including Typescript, Scala and React. Experience with AWS and Salesforce ServiceCloud as well as SaaS platforms such as Zuora, Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal, Braze, BigQuery and mParticle SaaS platforms. Strong stakeholder management skills, role modelling collaboration and knowledge sharing Experience coaching developers and providing guidance and feedback Able to balance product delivery and technical maintenance and prioritise work to ensure effectiveness. We actively encourage applications from candidates who are Black, Asian or minority-ethnic (BAME), or from other groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media. We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new Engineering Managers at the Guardian is £101,000 per annum. The majority of Guardian staff in the UK are based in the Kings Place office for three days a week, as we believe we are at our best when most staff work from the office together, most of the time. However there is a recognition that not all software development roles require such a regular presence in the office, and so there are different expectations per role: Engineering Managers and Head of Engineering (including this role): 3 days per week in the office All Software Developers/Engineers: 1 day per week in the office If you want to come in a lot more than that, that's great too. We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements. How to Apply To apply, please upload your latest CV and a cover letter which outlines why you'd love to take on this role, and why you're a great match for what we're looking for. We appreciate the time taken to prepare each application we receive. We do not use AI-assisted technology to review applications; every application is reviewed by a member of our recruitment team. The closing date for applications is Thursday 15th January 2026. All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply. It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs. Please contact Anna Vipers on to discuss further so we can work with you to support you through your application. Benefits at the Guardian You'll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days. Our pension scheme is generous; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age). We believe in giving back, which is why employees are given 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving. Season ticket loans are also available. You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance. We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy. Culture and Wellbeing We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought. Our various employee forums provide a platform to use their voice to foster an inclusive workplace. We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status. We offer tools to help you prioritise your wellbeing including access to our employee benefits platform which provides tailored support for health and wellbeing. In addition, we also offer free yoga and pilates classes. These run alongside our corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme. Our canteen has views overlooking the Regents Canal and caters for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Learning and Development We encourage personal and professional growth. Employees have access to a broad range of tools and solutions, and we are happy to support the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.
Jan 08, 2026
Full time
Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to work on our Supporter Revenue stream within the Product & Engineering department. The Supporter Revenue stream currently comprises 3 teams whose responsibilities align to guide readers through the Supporter lifecycle: from being encouraged to support whilst reading our journalism, to picking the best product for their needs from our portfolio, to providing their payment details, onboarding and transacting successfully, before experiencing an enriched digital experience or receiving their newspaper posted through the door a few weeks later. Supporting those 3 teams is a Platform team that ensures the billing, payments, customer service and data processes run smoothly and efficiently. The tech stack comprises TypeScript, Scala and React-based web apps, hosted within AWS and Salesforce ServiceCloud infrastructure, to principally orchestrate between the APIs of Zuora, Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal, Braze, BigQuery and mParticle SaaS platforms. We work collaboratively with designers, user experience architects, and other developers in the team. The majority of our code is openly available on GitHub, and some of our projects are widely used throughout the Open Source community. About the Role Support a group of developers with their technical and personal development, providing regular feedback and guidance. Coach developers on areas for development, celebrating achievements and recognising their strengths. Use your knowledge and expertise as an experienced developer to provide hands-on support to the team. Effectively communicate your team's goals and vision. Ensure effective collaboration with stakeholders. Ensure your team balances product delivery and technical maintenance, prioritising your team's workload to ensure effectiveness. Work with engineering managers across P&E to evolve our development, recruitment and mentoring practices. About You: Demonstrated experience managing a team of developers/engineers with experience gained in marketing, finance or customer services Extensive experience as a developer with a variety of experience across domains and technologies, including Typescript, Scala and React. Experience with AWS and Salesforce ServiceCloud as well as SaaS platforms such as Zuora, Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal, Braze, BigQuery and mParticle SaaS platforms. Strong stakeholder management skills, role modelling collaboration and knowledge sharing Experience coaching developers and providing guidance and feedback Able to balance product delivery and technical maintenance and prioritise work to ensure effectiveness. We actively encourage applications from candidates who are Black, Asian or minority-ethnic (BAME), or from other groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media. We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new Engineering Managers at the Guardian is £101,000 per annum. The majority of Guardian staff in the UK are based in the Kings Place office for three days a week, as we believe we are at our best when most staff work from the office together, most of the time. However there is a recognition that not all software development roles require such a regular presence in the office, and so there are different expectations per role: Engineering Managers and Head of Engineering (including this role): 3 days per week in the office All Software Developers/Engineers: 1 day per week in the office If you want to come in a lot more than that, that's great too. We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements. How to Apply To apply, please upload your latest CV and a cover letter which outlines why you'd love to take on this role, and why you're a great match for what we're looking for. We appreciate the time taken to prepare each application we receive. We do not use AI-assisted technology to review applications; every application is reviewed by a member of our recruitment team. The closing date for applications is Thursday 15th January 2026. All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply. It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs. Please contact Anna Vipers on to discuss further so we can work with you to support you through your application. Benefits at the Guardian You'll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days. Our pension scheme is generous; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age). We believe in giving back, which is why employees are given 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving. Season ticket loans are also available. You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance. We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy. Culture and Wellbeing We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought. Our various employee forums provide a platform to use their voice to foster an inclusive workplace. We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status. We offer tools to help you prioritise your wellbeing including access to our employee benefits platform which provides tailored support for health and wellbeing. In addition, we also offer free yoga and pilates classes. These run alongside our corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme. Our canteen has views overlooking the Regents Canal and caters for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Learning and Development We encourage personal and professional growth. Employees have access to a broad range of tools and solutions, and we are happy to support the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.
Overview interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Role Purpose The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a Developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions Perform the role of a 'code guardian', primarily ensuring that the quality of code delivered through the team is of the expected high standard, as well as supporting the development of individuals in the team to consistently meet these standards. Experience Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables Technical Skills TypeScript and JavaScript development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skills. React - Client-side SPA frameworks, specifically in the React ecosystem for web and mobile-native (React DOM, React Native) Java / JVM Eco System - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams. Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis HTML Server-side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc) SEO and SEF Architecture and Design Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discountson our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note:We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
Jan 01, 2026
Full time
Overview interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Role Purpose The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a Developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions Perform the role of a 'code guardian', primarily ensuring that the quality of code delivered through the team is of the expected high standard, as well as supporting the development of individuals in the team to consistently meet these standards. Experience Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables Technical Skills TypeScript and JavaScript development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skills. React - Client-side SPA frameworks, specifically in the React ecosystem for web and mobile-native (React DOM, React Native) Java / JVM Eco System - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams. Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis HTML Server-side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc) SEO and SEF Architecture and Design Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discountson our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note:We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
MCS Group is delighted to be partnering with a global software company that is driving innovation within the manufacturing technology space. This business is on an exciting journey of modernising its legacy product portfolio and expanding its best-in-class automation solutions - and they are now seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to join their growing team. Location: Belfast (Hybrid) The Role As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and evolving complex enterprise applications that power a market-leading manufacturing insights platform. You'll combine hands-on software development with technical leadership - driving new feature delivery, product modernisation, and quality improvements. You'll work closely with distributed engineering teams, mentoring developers, influencing technical direction, and ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that make a real impact for customers globally. What You'll Be Doing Lead the technical design and implementation of new product features and enhancements. Modernise and refactor existing codebases for scalability, maintainability, and cloud readiness. Provide day to day technical direction and mentorship for internal and contract developers. Collaborate with product and architecture teams to ensure technical alignment. Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders. Build out automated CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling and cloud platforms. Tech Stack Java (Spring Boot), React/TypeScript, Docker, AWS. What We're Looking For Hands on experience with Java and Spring Boot. Front end experience with React / JavaScript / TypeScript. Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS SaaS environments. Skilled with PostgreSQL and Redis in production systems. Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices. A self starter who thrives in a collaborative, global team environment. Why Join? This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a global business that has the ambition of a startup and the stability of an established software company. You'll join a talented, collaborative team where your voice is heard, and your work makes a real impact. You'll benefit from a competitive compensation package, excellent health benefits, flexible time off, learning opportunities, and a supportive environment that encourages innovation, growth, and balance. Interested? If you're a senior engineer who loves tackling complex problems, modernising technology, and mentoring teams, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity with MCS Group. To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact . Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current and exclusive roles. MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all. If you have a disability that means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request.
Jan 01, 2026
Full time
MCS Group is delighted to be partnering with a global software company that is driving innovation within the manufacturing technology space. This business is on an exciting journey of modernising its legacy product portfolio and expanding its best-in-class automation solutions - and they are now seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to join their growing team. Location: Belfast (Hybrid) The Role As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and evolving complex enterprise applications that power a market-leading manufacturing insights platform. You'll combine hands-on software development with technical leadership - driving new feature delivery, product modernisation, and quality improvements. You'll work closely with distributed engineering teams, mentoring developers, influencing technical direction, and ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that make a real impact for customers globally. What You'll Be Doing Lead the technical design and implementation of new product features and enhancements. Modernise and refactor existing codebases for scalability, maintainability, and cloud readiness. Provide day to day technical direction and mentorship for internal and contract developers. Collaborate with product and architecture teams to ensure technical alignment. Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders. Build out automated CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling and cloud platforms. Tech Stack Java (Spring Boot), React/TypeScript, Docker, AWS. What We're Looking For Hands on experience with Java and Spring Boot. Front end experience with React / JavaScript / TypeScript. Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS SaaS environments. Skilled with PostgreSQL and Redis in production systems. Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices. A self starter who thrives in a collaborative, global team environment. Why Join? This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a global business that has the ambition of a startup and the stability of an established software company. You'll join a talented, collaborative team where your voice is heard, and your work makes a real impact. You'll benefit from a competitive compensation package, excellent health benefits, flexible time off, learning opportunities, and a supportive environment that encourages innovation, growth, and balance. Interested? If you're a senior engineer who loves tackling complex problems, modernising technology, and mentoring teams, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity with MCS Group. To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact . Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current and exclusive roles. MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all. If you have a disability that means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request.
Who we are: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Role Purpose The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront. Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team. Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing. Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology. Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain. Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution. Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions. Experience Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables Technical Skills Architecture and Design Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes Excellent software development, software architecture and technical delivery skills in: Typescript / React / React Native Eco System TypeScript and JavaScript Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development Client-side SPA frameworks, specifically in the React ecosystem for web and mobile-native (React DOM, React Native) Server-side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc) Building accessible semantic HTML SEO and SEF Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
Jan 01, 2026
Full time
Who we are: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Role Purpose The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront. Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team. Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing. Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology. Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain. Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution. Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions. Experience Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables Technical Skills Architecture and Design Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes Excellent software development, software architecture and technical delivery skills in: Typescript / React / React Native Eco System TypeScript and JavaScript Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development Client-side SPA frameworks, specifically in the React ecosystem for web and mobile-native (React DOM, React Native) Server-side SSG and SSR (Next.js, etc) Building accessible semantic HTML SEO and SEF Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. 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