Senior Software Engineer

Management Level

EQ Retirement Solutions is transforming the retirement and pensions markets with leading administration and technology solutions. With over 1200 employees globally, 189 years of knowledge and 11 million pension scheme members and policyholders, we are here to help people plan for a confident financial future by delivering innovative, reliable and customer-focused retirement services. Our teams are driven by a shared commitment to excellence, collaboration and making a real impact to the lives of our clients and customers.

Role Summary

EQ Retirement Solutions are looking for a Senior Software Engineer within the Engineering RS department. The main purpose of the role is to design, build, test and deliver high‑quality software features across the full development lifecycle for our pensions administration platforms, championing engineering excellence, Agile practices and continuous improvement while collaborating as part of an engineering squad.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Designing, coding, verifying, testing, documenting, amending and refactoring simple to moderately complex programs and scripts.
• Applying agreed engineering standards, patterns and tools to produce well‑engineered outcomes.
• Reviewing own work and participating in peer reviews constructively.
• Monitoring progress and identifying software development issues, proposing practical solutions to resolve them.
• Contributing to and adhering to the Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Operating Model.
• Demonstrating engineering excellence through use of analysis tools, gated builds and peer reviews.
• Evaluating and helping introduce emerging technologies, tools and methods to strengthen product engineering.
• Supporting continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Escalating, documenting and managing issues relating to product design, feature sets and functionality.
• Providing accurate estimates (story points / T‑shirt sizing) and delivering work to the Definition of Done every sprint.
• Collaborating across the squad and wider engineering community to uphold coding standards and architectural direction.
• Supporting onboarding and mentoring of colleagues with less experience.

The duties and responsibilities outlined above are to be regarded as broad areas of responsibility and do not necessarily detail all tasks which the post holder may be required to perform.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The ideal candidate will have the below skills, capabilities and attributes

Technical Skills (Essential)

• Solid object‑oriented development experience in Java
• Practical SQL skills for views and stored procedures.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and awareness of C syntax.
• Unit testing (JUnit), understanding of TDD and use of BDD.
• Hands‑on experience with Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube and related tooling.
• Experience with Selenium/Cucumber test automation frameworks.

Ways of Working

• Delivers working software to the Definition of Done, sprint after sprint.
• Participates actively in all Scrum events
• Provides accurate estimates collaboratively with the engineering squad.
• Adheres to coding and quality standards; contributes to design and architecture forums when appropriate.

Behavioural Attributes

• Demonstrates high ethical standards, integrity and transparency.
• Calm, composed and respectful in all situations.
• Positive, enthusiastic and self‑motivated with a solutions‑focused mindset.
• Celebrates team success and motivates others within the squad.
• Accepts feedback constructively and helps prevent conflict.
• Actively contributes new ideas and supports others to explore them

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off – Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.