Lead Software Engineer

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Lead Software Engineer

Permanent  

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £68,400 - £102,600 (depending on the experience you can bring)

Closing date:  4th February 2025

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. 

Technology is at the centre of our organisation, it’s pivotal to the way we do business everyday and achieving our mission.  Our technology organisation is transforming we want to change how we work, improve our technology architecture incrementally, be better at engineering, building out our data capability and drive innovation. We are continuing to grow and have a number of Lead Software Engineer positions based in Edinburgh. 

As a Lead (Principal) Software Engineer, you will: 

• Be responsible for leading and overseeing the development of complex applications, ensuring high-quality code, and driving technical excellence across engineering. This includes architecting, designing, and developing robust and scalable web applications. 
• Drive and lead the technical direction of full stack and cloud development with best practices on coding standards, code reviews, and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes across the Aegon technology estate. 
• Provide the strategic way forward from an engineering perspective on all fronts from solution to implementation, best practices on coding standards, code reviews, and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes across the Aegon technology estate. 
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other business stakeholders to deliver innovative software solutions. 
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior, mid and senior developers to foster a culture of continuous improvement and career progression.  
• Provide guidance and expertise on automation to enable faster and continuous delivery. 

We’d love to hear from you if you have:  

• Extensive experience as a Lead Full Stack Developer, with a strong focus on web application development. 
• Deep technical understanding of frontend web technologies, preferably with experience working with Angular.  
• Deep Expertise in backend technologies, preferably with experience working with Python or Java. 
• Deep expertise in AWS services and architecture, including EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, amongst others. 
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation. 
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices for scalable and maintainable code. 
• Experience in conducting workshops or meetings to gather business requirements and facilitate productive discussions between business and technical teams. 

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.