Software Engineering Manager - Active Savings

Excited to grow your career?

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

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We'd love to hear from you!

About the role

Salary: up to £90,000 dependent on experience

HL are looking for a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead an Active Savings product development team in building market leading solutions for our clients.

This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, looking after over £149.7bn billion in assets on behalf of more than 1.86 million UK investors. We are a secure, FTSE 100 company.

This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK's most innovative and digital-focused businesses.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading a cross functional product engineering team
• Supporting the growth of our Software Engineers
• Driving technical delivery, continuous improvement and innovation
• Partnering closely with technical/business leaders and teams to understand business processes and data flows/challenges/opportunities and design solutions to deliver better outcomes for our clients and colleagues
• Recruiting and shaping an existing team to be a high performing set of talented and experienced professionals
• Ownership of services under your team - maintenance, support, security and continuous improvement
• Establish a culture that is driven by purpose and excellence and a team that is motivated to make a difference

About You

• Strong technology leadership experience within complex organisations
• You set guard rails around scope, technology, quality, non-functional requirements, best practices then empower your team to find the best solution within these guard rails
• You enjoy working in a product, client value driven environment. Collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders
• You act as a strong partner to multiple business areas to deliver on key priorities with a one team mindset
• You understand key delivery metrics, and use them to optimise your team's ways of working
• You have a strong people focus - you prioritise your team's L&D, understand how to keep your team motivated and build a strong culture based on psychological safety
• Able to manage ambiguity and seek clarity through collaboration and communication
• Strong software engineering background, able to define and communicate complex architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Tech Stack / Tooling

Experience of any of the following would be beneficial:

• Java
• Spring boot
• React
• Oracle DB
• AWS or other cloud technologies
• Jira
• Confluence
• Miro

Why Us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on Offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

* dependant on role level

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.