This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to lead on our award winning Investcentre platform. Your will be joining a team which has a philosophy of continuous improvement, and a strong focus on engineering excellence

What to expect:

• Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and building a high-performance engineering team
• Guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products
• Consider architectural and non-functional requirements and work with the team to deliver
• At AJ Bell we pair, and you, in most cases will pair with other people

Tech Competency

• Significant commercial experience developing services and APIs with C#, .NET core, Mongo and/or SQL with techniques such as domain-driven design and MVC.
• Strong technical background in web development with Angular/React/VueJs.
• Experience in developing HTTP-based APIs and implementation of RESTful services with JSON.
• Thorough understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Practices Test Driven Development and is comfortable with various test frameworks and concepts.
• A proven record in developing scalable, highly available and highly performing middle-tier components.
• Familiarisation with containerisation and tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience of developing, deploying, and maintaining Cloud-Based solutions on AWS
• Understand principles behind highly performing web pages
• Experience/Familiarity with Entity framework core.
• Experience/Familiarity with communications technologies (Web API, Google Protocol Buffers) and message queues (e.g. RabbitMQ)

Soft skills:

• Agile / SCRUM / SAFe
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm
• E-commerce and/or financial services experience   

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK, with over 368,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £70.4 billion. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with an office in central London, we now have 900 employees and have been named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for three consecutive years.

Additional Information:

There are opportunities for growth and professional development for members wanting to progress within their career including induction training and our study support scheme which is part of our benefits package.

Our EQ4 office design is centred on delivering agile and collaborative working spaces that enable us to deliver a first class service to our customers, but remote working continues to be a large part of our work life and will continue to be post-covid. 

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of team work, we have a great sense of pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees.

Benefits:

• Regular remote working
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Contributory pension
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Pay-day drinks on our 7th floor roof terrace
• 25 days holiday increasing to 30 with length of service
• Holiday buy scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Death in service cover
• Confidential 24/7 365 employee assistance helpline
• Free onsite gym and trainer led classes (yoga, Pilates, boxercise, circuits)
• Paid volunteering days
• Bike loan scheme
• Season ticket loan portal
• Plus, much more