Senior Developer
Senior Developer
Permanent
Location: Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)
Salary: A competitive salary from £50,880 - £76,320, depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date: 26th July 2024
We’re a company of ambitious, collaborative, problem-solvers who get things done. Our mission is to help people achieve a lifetime of financial security, and we’re investing in innovation that can make people’s finances work harder. From a Digital Experience that gives one-stop access to a universe of investment opportunity – to retirement products that make wealth planning simple, easy and fulfilling – we’re dedicated to getting people closer to their financial goals every day.
We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.
As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for leading and overseeing the development of complex applications, ensuring high-quality code, and driving technical excellence across our team. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other business stakeholders to deliver innovative software solutions. With your deep understanding of open-source technologies, extensive experience with AWS, expertise in automation, and proficiency in ReactNative and AngularJS frameworks, you will provide the strategic way forward from an engineering perspective for our business. You will also:
- Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous improvement, taking ownership of the capabilities assigned to your team.
- Design and develop robust and scalable web applications using ReactNative, AngularJS, and other relevant technologies to our business.
- Drive and lead best practices for coding standards, code reviews, and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes across the Aegon technology estate.
- Implement and maintain a strong testing framework to ensure the reliability and quality of developed software.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience working in a role such as a Lead or Senior Full Stack Developer, with a strong focus on web application development.
- Extensive experience working in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
- Solid understanding of front-end and back-end technologies, including ReactNative, AngularJS, Node.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related frameworks.
- Deep expertise in AWS services and architecture, including EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices for scalable and maintainable code.
What’s in it for you?
- A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
- 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
Transformation change is never easy and if this excites you as much as it does us we would love to hear from you.
The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.