Job Description
Overview
The Touch team is developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments. We are building a mobile-first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients’ investments entirely through their smartphone.
What you’ll do
- Hands-on leadership for a cross-functional team, responsible for team delivery and line management of ~5 engineers (back-end, web and mobile), providing feedback, coaching and mentoring.
- Engage in the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering with stakeholders, working as a team to build and test features, managing deployment and supporting the service in production.
- Continuously improve the product, processes and practices, reducing friction and waste.
- Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment; strong emphasis on automation.
- Collaborate beyond your specialization when needed; engineers contribute across technologies outside their core area.
What you’ll have
- Experience leading an engineering team, including line management duties such as personal development coaching and performance reviews.
- Excellent programming and problem solving skills.
- Understanding of software design patterns and paradigms (e.g., OOAD, DDD, MVC, microservices, containers/orchestration, event-driven architecture).
- Experience creating performant, scalable, secure and well-tested code.
- Strong ownership of tasks, ability to clear roadblocks and bring in others when needed.
- Experience working with Investment or Pensions platforms would be an advantage.
Our tools and technologies
The following are used or considered useful foundations for the team. Prior knowledge is beneficial but not essential.
- Go (training available for engineers new to Go)
- gRPC/proto
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes / Docker
Other technologies we use
- TypeScript and Vue
- Dart and Flutter
About AJ Bell
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions for professionals and DIY investors. We have over 644,000 customers and assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. We are a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange, headquartered in Manchester with offices in London and Bristol, and more than 1,500 employees. We have been named one of the UK’s Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years and named a Great Place to Work in 2024 and 2025.
What we offer
- Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 with length of service; holiday buy/sell scheme
- Matched pension contributions up to 7%
- Discretionary bonus, annual share awards, BAYE scheme
- Health benefits including Health Cash Plan, private healthcare and dental plan
- Free onsite gym, Employee Assistance Programme, bike loan scheme
- Sick pay pledge, enhanced maternity/paternity/parental leave
- Travel season ticket loans and death in service cover
- Volunteer time off, charitable giving via salary sacrifice
- Regular social events, and personal development programmes
- Technical training and professional qualification support
- Hybrid working model with minimum 50% office time per month
Hybrid working
We offer a hybrid working model: spend a minimum of 50% of your time per month in the office, including one day a month in our Bristol office. New team members may start with full-time office presence to help immersion and relationship-building.
Equal opportunity
AJ Bell is committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law. All hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above, or want to know more about the company and role, we would love to speak with you.
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