Forward Deployed Engineer (Java, Typescript & Azure)

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Who we are

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Group Protection technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering modern cloud-based solutions while working across the full software delivery lifecycle. You'll contribute to the evolution of our engineering practices, influence technical direction, and help build scalable, secure, and reliable applications that support our customers and colleagues.

Working as part of a collaborative and supportive team, you'll partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders, product owners, and fellow engineers to turn ideas into impactful solutions. You'll also have the opportunity to mentor others, drive continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning and evolving services and applications across their full lifecycle
• Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to understand business needs and shape technical solutions
• Designing, developing and deploying scalable applications using modern engineering practices
• Driving quality through automated testing, observability and continuous improvement initiatives
• Leading technical problem-solving and supporting incident investigation and resolution
• Championing secure software development practices and promoting engineering best practice
• Mentoring and coaching engineers to strengthen team capability and technical excellence
• Contributing to architectural decisions, reducing technical debt and improving platform sustainability

Who we're looking for:

• Strong commercial experience developing software using Java and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience building and supporting RESTful microservices in Spring Boot, Node.js or similar frameworks
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies, ideally Azure, alongside infrastructure and containerisation tools
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, preferably including GitHub Actions
• Strong knowledge of software design principles, clean architecture and test-driven development
• Experience working within Agile environments using approaches such as Scrum or Kanban
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a collaborative, inclusive team culture

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in-person experience

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.