Lead Software Engineer

JOB TITLE:   Lead Software Engineer

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity
Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive.

Here's where you’ll make a difference as a Lead Software Engineer in Advisor Waterfront –

• Lead a full-stack feature team of software and quality engineers with a focus on predictable delivery and engineering excellence. 
• Collaborate with fellow leads, solution architects, UI/UX designers, and product owners to define roadmaps, technical designs and unblock delivery. 
• Lead by example by being a hands-on contributor to the codebase and providing oversight and feedback via pull requests. 
• Demonstrate leadership for API and microservice design with deep knowledge in your specialist domain (API/microservice/Frontend). 
• Provide line-management and personal development support for engineering team members 

About us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience of modern application and software development approaches including automated testing, test driven development, continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control 
• Deep expertise in Frontend and backend development.
• Proven experience in React, .net, Java.
• Firm grasp of testing methodologies (Unit testing, UI testing, automation testing) 
• Experience designing and evolving RESTful API contracts 
• Knack of identifying new technologies, tools and approaches to help continually improve standards and quality 
• A “can-do” attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle 

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience of working with Docker or other containerisation technologies 
• Experience of successfully implementing and using CI/CD pipelines 
• Display a DevOps mindset and ability to use tools like Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform 

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.