Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Digital)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
- interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
- Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
- Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Department
The Digital Engineering team designs, builds and evolves the digital platforms that power Aberdeen’s public websites and digital services. Working closely with Product Owners, Architects, UX specialists and business stakeholders, the team delivers secure, scalable and client-focused solutions that support Aberdeen’s strategic ambitions. Collaboration, continuous improvement and engineering excellence are central to how the team works, helping to enable our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Digital), you will play a leading role in building and enhancing modern digital platforms using React, Next.js, .NET and Microsoft Azure. You will work across front-end applications, backend services, cloud infrastructure and enterprise integrations, contributing to technical design, architecture and engineering standards while remaining hands-on in delivery. This is an opportunity to influence technology modernisation, mentor fellow engineers and improve digital experiences used by clients and customers. Based in Edinburgh, you will help drive innovation, resilience and operational excellence while continuing to develop your own expertise and career.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain modern web applications, APIs and digital integrations that deliver secure, scalable and high-performing client experiences.
- Lead technical design decisions, influence architecture and ensure alignment with engineering, security and accessibility standards.
- Drive cloud-native development within Microsoft Azure, including CI/CD automation, observability and operational excellence.
- Collaborate across product, UX, architecture and business teams to deliver high-quality digital solutions and technology modernisation initiatives.
- Investigate complex production issues, lead root cause analysis and continuously improve platform resilience and service performance.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering capability, reusable platform services and cross-team improvement initiatives.
About the Candidate
- Strong proficiency in React and Next.js for modern web application development.
- Experience building and supporting REST APIs and backend services using C# and .NET.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, cloud-native services and identity integrations.
- Knowledge of Git, GitHub Actions, automation tooling and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong understanding of accessibility, SEO, security, performance optimisation and SQL.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving and mentoring skills with a collaborative mindset.
Desirable criteria: Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, Sitecore XM Cloud, Vercel, Playwright, Storybook, GraphQL, Marketing Cloud, Aprimo, Seismic, Sitecore Search, CodeQL, SonarQube and experience of enterprise-scale digital platforms.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements - for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability - please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.