Job Description

Excited to grow your career?
Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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
Software Engineering Manager - Active Savings
HL are looking for an experienced and talented Software Engineering Manager to lead an Active Savings product development team in building market-leading solutions for our clients. The Savings application allows HL clients to easily deposit cash into a selection of savings accounts offered by partner banks. It is a bespoke development project with several functional sub-components.
This is an opportunity to join the UK's number one investment services company, managing over 149.7 billion in assets for c.2 million UK investors. As a secure, and highly respected brand, HL offers you the chance to make a genuine impact within one of the UK's most innovative and digitally focused businesses.
What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and inspire an engineering squad of up to 8 to deliver high-quality software for the Active Savings tribe.
• Provide structured leadership that ensures consistent delivery, productivity, engagement, and team wellbeing.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, purpose, and innovation aligned with HL's values and our regulated environment.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, nurturing a high-performance culture with psychological safety at its core.
• Ensure best practices in agile delivery, DevOps, secure engineering, and operational support are upheld across the teams.
• Take ownership of your team's services - ensuring they are secure, reliable, scalable, and continually improved.
• Work closely with Product Managers and senior stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with business and client values.
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language and influence decision-making at senior levels.
• Champion continuous learning, cross-functional collaboration, and inclusive team growth.

About You

• 8-10 years of software development experience with at least 3 in Engineering Lead/Manager role within large-scale, regulated environments - ideally in Retail Banking and/or Asset and Wealth Management; covering Deposits, Card/SWIFT Payments, Pay By Bank, Faster Payment Service (FPS).
• Track record of managing and building high-performing software engineering teams, balancing delivery and innovation.
• Strong engineering background with the ability to communicate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You create guardrails based on scope, technical design, NFRs, and quality--then empower your team to innovate within them.
• Client- and product-focused mindset, with experience partnering closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.
• You embrace ambiguity, foster collaboration, and promote psychological safety to help teams navigate change.
• Hands-on knowledge of secure API design, authentication services, and mobile development (Swift/Kotlin, React Native).
• Knowledge and experience of modern DevOps tools and practices.
• Exposure to Figma and Vercel is a great plus.
• Experience leading engineering efforts across legacy and modern technology stacks.
• Strong technical degree from a reputable university is highly desirable.

Tech Stack

• Java / Springboot / Gradle / HTML / GraphQL / Oracle / MyBatis / React / React Native / Swift / Kotlin
• Cucumber / Selenium / RestAssured / Jenkins
• Linux / Windows / AWS / Terraform IaC / Kubernetes

Interview Process
This will be a 3-stage interview process comprising an initial informal call with the hiring manager, followed by two structured interviews.
Working Schedule
37.5 hours per week, with flexibility based on business demands and occasional onsite visits to our London and Bristol offices.
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* and annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year

• dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
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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.

Skills Required