We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep expertise in React Native to join our engineering team. In this role, you will apply your software engineering skills to build high-quality features, resolve bugs, and address technical debt. You will also bring a strategic perspective to team processes and tooling, helping to continuously improve how we work and deliver valuable, reliable software to our customers.
What you'll be doing:
- Delivering clean, maintainable features and resolving end-to-end issues by applying thoughtful engineering approaches that ensure solutions are fit for purpose, aligned with standards, and deliver real value to our customers
- Contributing to the technical debt strategy, helping the team maintain secure, resilient, and reliable systems that support long-term scalability and performance
- Defining effective test strategies that prioritise security, usability, and accessibility, ensuring a consistently high-quality customer experience
- Participating in code reviews with a focus on both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, maintainability, resiliency, and security
- Promoting continuous improvement by encouraging inspection and adaptation to enhance team effectiveness, productivity, and overall wellbeing
- Fostering a collaborative team culture, mentoring and supporting junior engineers to grow their skills and contribute confidently to delivery
- Researching emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to integrate them into our applications, while sharing insights through developer forums to inspire innovation
- Upholding customer-centric values, ensuring all work reflects Legal & General鈥檚 principles on Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly