Senior Full Stack Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help us develop the future of our customer-facing investment experiences. Your will be joining a cross functional development team which has a philosophy of continuous improvement, and a strong focus on engineering excellence.

We are a growing team focussed on providing our customers with innovative web and app based tools and services to help them grow as investors no matter what their experience, and we are on the lookout for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can lead us in the adoption of cutting edge technologies, as well as providing a robust experience in production.

What to expect:

• Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and building a high-performance engineering team
• Guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products
• Consider architectural and non-functional requirements and work with the team to break down and refine these into development tasks
• Foster a build it, run it, own it DevOps mentality, nurturing code from idea all the way to production

Tech Competency

• Significant commercial experience developing services and APIs with some of the following; Node, PHP, .NET core, MongoDB and/or SQL.
• Strong technical background in web development with React/NextJS/NestJs.
• Experience in developing HTTP-based APIs and implementation of RESTful services with JSON, as well as with GraphQL
• Thorough understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Practices Test Driven Development and is comfortable with various test frameworks and concepts.
• Familiarisation with containerisation and tools like Docker, ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience of developing, deploying, and maintaining Cloud-Based solutions on AWS
• Understand the principles behind what makes a high performing web page
• Experience of Drupal CMS would be a bonus

 Soft skills:

• Proven experience working with stakeholders from product management and other business areas to design and deliver a solution
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm
• Experience of working in financial services or a regulated industry would be a bonus

About us

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 and 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

Our perks and benefits

• £65,000 - £75,000 (Depending on experience)
• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike loan scheme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Death in service scheme
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Paid time off for volunteer work
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Parking at Exchange Quay
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Professional qualification support
• Talent management programmes
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

Hybrid working

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.