Engineer | Java

Are you a talented engineer ready to make a significant impact Join our dynamic technical engineering team where youll use your software engineering skills to create innovative features squash bugs tackle technical debt and streamline our processes. Your efforts will directly contribute to delivering exceptional highquality software that delights our customers.

What youll be doing:

• Collaborating with the team to develop clean maintainable features and resolve endtoend issues utilising various approaches to ensure we deliver outstanding outcomes to our customers efficiently and effectively
• Contributing to the management of technical debt ensuring Legal & Generals systems remain secure resilient and reliable
• Enhancing and refining testing methodologies within the team to ensure the highest quality customer experience with a strong focus on security usability and accessibility
• Participating in code reviews emphasising both functional and nonfunctional requirements such as performance resiliency maintainability and security to consistently produce highquality safe software for our customers
• Engaging in continuous improvement efforts related to security quality deployment monitoring and operations enabling the seamless release and operation of safe performant and resilient systems in production
• Actively participating in developer team meetings to keep colleagues informed and foster a culture of knowledge sharing. Communicating effectively and collaborate continuously with team members to ensure smooth delivery of development activities within the sprint timebox
• Pursuing ongoing skill development through relevant training in your role discipline

Qualifications :

Who were looking for:

• Proven handson experience in building microservices using Java and Spring Boot
• Solid understanding of clean code principles and architecture concepts such as SOLID and Onion
• Demonstrated expertise in crafting largescale welloptimised and maintainable software features ensuring robust and efficient solutions
• Good grasp of at least one layered backend application architecture including threetier hexagonal or onion
• Proficiency in testdriven development and familiarity with the testing pyramid.
• Comprehensive understanding of Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment and other release strategies
• Proven ability to analyse debug and resolve highly complex issues showcasing your critical thinking and technical prowess
• Excellent communication skills with strong proficiency in both spoken and written English

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 performancerelated 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. Theres 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 brandnew 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

Additional Information :

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

If you join us youll 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 parttime termtime and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesnt matter if you dont 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. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime