Job Description
Job Description
The Touch team is developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments.
The majority of existing platforms are still reliant on software and processes that aren’t capable of supporting today’s technology, so we started from scratch, developing a modern platform that is as efficient as possible. We’re building a mobile first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients’ investments entirely through their Smartphone.
The day to day responsibilities
- Engage in the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering with stakeholders, working as a team to build and test features, managing deployment and supporting the service in production.
- Work as part of a distributed team made up of self-motivated and collaborative individuals.
- Iteratively make improvements to a new product while aligning to our mutually agreed design and architectural principles.
- Always looking for ways we can improve our product, processes and practices. We don’t like friction and waste.
- Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment. We are huge proponents of automation.
- Working outside of your specialism when needed. While all our team members have a specialism, we don’t let that restrain us. Our engineers jump in to help get things done even in technologies out of their core competency.
Your skills and attributes
- Excellent programming and problem solving skills
- Understanding of relevant software design patterns and paradigms, such as OOAD, DDD, MVC, microservices, containers/orchestration or event-driven architecture
- Experience in creating performant, scalable, secure and well tested code.
- You take ownership of tasks and problems, clearing roadblocks and pulling in other people to help when needed.
- Experience working with Investment or Pensions platforms would be an advantage
Our tools and technologies
The below are all things that we are either currently using or have found to be a useful foundation when joining our team. Prior knowledge of them is not essential but would be beneficial to the role:
- Flutter (including Dart) - we can provide training to experienced native iOS or Android engineers who haven’t used Flutter before.
- Firebase, Riverpod with Hooks, Provider, Deeplinking
- gRPC/proto
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
Other technologies we use include:
- TypeScript and Vue
- Go
About AJ Bell
AJ Bell is one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment platform businesses, providing award-winning solutions for everyone, from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.
Today, over 644,000 customers trust us to manage more than £103.3 billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we’re helping more people take control of their financial futures.
We’re proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026 a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.
What we offer
- 25 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
- 6% Pension with matched contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
- Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
- Free onsite gym
- Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Travel and bike loan schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
Life at AJ Bell
- Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
- Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
- Casual dress code
- Friendly, supportive team environment
Our ways of working
We offer hybrid working, with a minimum of 50% of your working time per month spent in the office.
For new starters, there’s an initial period of full-time office working to help you settle in and build relationships.
Inclusion & diversity
We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to be themselves at work.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience and potential.
