[Hiring] Software Engineer @Hargreaves Lansdown

Role Description

Our mission is to 'help people to save and invest with confidence'. We are looking for great people to come and join us, so come and invest in YOUR future at HL.

• Build systems that power trade execution for millions of investors.
• Join Trade Execution, the team responsible for systems connecting clients with financial markets, including trade routing, order execution and broker integrations.
• Combine new development with the modernisation and support of established trading components.
• Your work directly supports trade routing and execution for millions of investors.
• Own services end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Work with distributed, highly available and event-driven systems where reliability and observability matter.
• Contribute to technical decisions, service boundaries and implementation approaches, not just feature delivery.
• Help modernise an established trading platform while building new functionality.
• Work directly on HL products in a collaborative Poland-UK engineering team.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building backend applications in Java using Spring Boot.
• Practical AWS experience gained in production environments.
• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and microservices.
• Experience owning services in production, including monitoring, incident investigation and reliability improvements.
• Experience working with distributed, event-driven or highly available systems.
• Understanding of observability practices, including metrics, tracing, logging and monitoring.
• Understanding of testing, maintainability, security and engineering best practices.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• English at C1 level and Polish at B2 level or higher.

Requirements

• Financial services, investment or trading systems experience (Nice-to-have).
• JPA or Hibernate (Nice-to-have).
• Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools (Nice-to-have).
• Exposure to TypeScript, Node.js or React (Nice-to-have).

Benefits

• We are an inclusive employer that values diversity in our workforce.
• We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and are committed to fair and equitable hiring practices.
• Recruitment decisions are based on the skills and experience relevant to the role.