Title: UI Designer (Design System) Location: Manchester 3 days in office, 2 days remote Salary: From £37,910 Who we are: interactive investor is an award winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role: This role focuses on creating, maintaining, and evolving ii's design ecosystem to deliver consistent, accessible, and high quality customer experiences. Working closely with the Design System Lead and the Design System and Architecture (DAS) team, you will help deliver the design system strategy and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the system. The role requires close collaboration with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to ensure the system meets the needs of products, users, and contributors. Key responsibilities Design System delivery and evolution Partner with the Design System Lead and DAS team to deliver the design system strategy and roadmap. Contribute to the evolution of system foundations, components, patterns, and documentation. Balance immediate product requirements with the long term health and scalability of the system. Support governance processes and encourage effective contribution and adoption. Asset libraries Create, maintain, and refine reusable components and patterns within a robust asset library. Apply systems thinking to component hierarchy, composition, and dependencies. Maintain design tokens across colour, typography, spacing, motion, and other foundational elements. Ensure visual consistency across components, patterns, templates, and foundations. Ensure components are scalable, accessible, responsive, and support multiple use cases. Maintain naming conventions, variants, states, and versioning standards. Cross functional collaboration Work closely with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to create reusable, high quality solutions. Partner with developers to ensure alignment between design assets and coded components. Gather feedback from stakeholders and product teams to inform continuous improvement. Participate in workshops, reviews, and collaborative problem solving activities. Documentation and quality Produce and maintain clear guidance for components, patterns, and usage. Document behaviours, variants, states, and interaction principles. Contribute to maintaining consistency, quality, accessibility, and usability across the ecosystem. Maintain visual design standards across typography, colour, iconography, spacing, motion, and interaction patterns. Required experience and skills Core UI design 3-5 years' experience in UI, product, or digital design. Strong visual design fundamentals, including layout, typography, colour, spacing, and interaction design. Proficiency with Figma and component based workflows. Experience designing responsive experiences across platforms and devices. Design Systems Proven experience creating and maintaining component libraries and design systems. Strong understanding of component hierarchy, composition, and dependency management. Experience working with design tokens and foundational design principles. Confidence managing complex asset libraries and maintaining consistency across products. Experience documenting components, patterns, and usage guidelines. Ability to think systematically and understand the wider impact of design decisions. Collaboration and quality Experience working in multidisciplinary teams. Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate design rationale. Working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices. Understanding of implementation considerations and quality assurance processes. Nice to have Experience with design to code and MCP workflows. Familiarity with Storybook and Zeroheight. Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and component based development frameworks. Experience contributing to design system governance. Experience supporting multi brand or multi platform ecosystems. Success in this role The successful candidate will: Apply systems thinking to create scalable and reusable solutions. Partner effectively with the Design System Lead and DAS team to evolve the system. Build strong relationships across disciplines and promote shared ownership. Balance consistency with flexibility to support evolving product needs. Contribute to a design system that continuously improves through collaboration, evidence, and feedback. Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
09/07/2026
Full time
Title: UI Designer (Design System) Location: Manchester 3 days in office, 2 days remote Salary: From £37,910 Who we are: interactive investor is an award winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role: This role focuses on creating, maintaining, and evolving ii's design ecosystem to deliver consistent, accessible, and high quality customer experiences. Working closely with the Design System Lead and the Design System and Architecture (DAS) team, you will help deliver the design system strategy and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the system. The role requires close collaboration with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to ensure the system meets the needs of products, users, and contributors. Key responsibilities Design System delivery and evolution Partner with the Design System Lead and DAS team to deliver the design system strategy and roadmap. Contribute to the evolution of system foundations, components, patterns, and documentation. Balance immediate product requirements with the long term health and scalability of the system. Support governance processes and encourage effective contribution and adoption. Asset libraries Create, maintain, and refine reusable components and patterns within a robust asset library. Apply systems thinking to component hierarchy, composition, and dependencies. Maintain design tokens across colour, typography, spacing, motion, and other foundational elements. Ensure visual consistency across components, patterns, templates, and foundations. Ensure components are scalable, accessible, responsive, and support multiple use cases. Maintain naming conventions, variants, states, and versioning standards. Cross functional collaboration Work closely with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to create reusable, high quality solutions. Partner with developers to ensure alignment between design assets and coded components. Gather feedback from stakeholders and product teams to inform continuous improvement. Participate in workshops, reviews, and collaborative problem solving activities. Documentation and quality Produce and maintain clear guidance for components, patterns, and usage. Document behaviours, variants, states, and interaction principles. Contribute to maintaining consistency, quality, accessibility, and usability across the ecosystem. Maintain visual design standards across typography, colour, iconography, spacing, motion, and interaction patterns. Required experience and skills Core UI design 3-5 years' experience in UI, product, or digital design. Strong visual design fundamentals, including layout, typography, colour, spacing, and interaction design. Proficiency with Figma and component based workflows. Experience designing responsive experiences across platforms and devices. Design Systems Proven experience creating and maintaining component libraries and design systems. Strong understanding of component hierarchy, composition, and dependency management. Experience working with design tokens and foundational design principles. Confidence managing complex asset libraries and maintaining consistency across products. Experience documenting components, patterns, and usage guidelines. Ability to think systematically and understand the wider impact of design decisions. Collaboration and quality Experience working in multidisciplinary teams. Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate design rationale. Working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices. Understanding of implementation considerations and quality assurance processes. Nice to have Experience with design to code and MCP workflows. Familiarity with Storybook and Zeroheight. Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and component based development frameworks. Experience contributing to design system governance. Experience supporting multi brand or multi platform ecosystems. Success in this role The successful candidate will: Apply systems thinking to create scalable and reusable solutions. Partner effectively with the Design System Lead and DAS team to evolve the system. Build strong relationships across disciplines and promote shared ownership. Balance consistency with flexibility to support evolving product needs. Contribute to a design system that continuously improves through collaboration, evidence, and feedback. Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
Interactive Investor Plc seeks a UI Designer to enhance its design system and deliver high-quality user experiences. The role involves close collaboration across teams to create and maintain reusable design components. Candidates should have 3-5 years of UI design experience and proficiency with Figma. Offering a salary starting from £37,910, the position supports a hybrid work model based in Manchester, providing an array of employee benefits such as a pension plan and private medical insurance.
09/07/2026
Full time
Interactive Investor Plc seeks a UI Designer to enhance its design system and deliver high-quality user experiences. The role involves close collaboration across teams to create and maintain reusable design components. Candidates should have 3-5 years of UI design experience and proficiency with Figma. Offering a salary starting from £37,910, the position supports a hybrid work model based in Manchester, providing an array of employee benefits such as a pension plan and private medical insurance.
Interactive Investor Plc is looking for a Scrum Master to join their Solution Delivery team. This hybrid role (3 days in Manchester) involves coaching agile squads, facilitating Scrum practices, and improving delivery processes. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of agile methodologies, previous team leadership experience, and proficiency in Jira and Confluence. Benefits include a group personal pension plan, private medical insurance, and 25 days annual leave. Join their mission to empower investors and manage significant assets efficiently.
07/07/2026
Full time
Interactive Investor Plc is looking for a Scrum Master to join their Solution Delivery team. This hybrid role (3 days in Manchester) involves coaching agile squads, facilitating Scrum practices, and improving delivery processes. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of agile methodologies, previous team leadership experience, and proficiency in Jira and Confluence. Benefits include a group personal pension plan, private medical insurance, and 25 days annual leave. Join their mission to empower investors and manage significant assets efficiently.
Interactive Investor Plc is seeking an Agile Release Manager based in Manchester with a hybrid work model working three days a week in the office. The role involves supporting the management of Agile release schedules across various teams while ensuring timely communication and control of the change pipeline. The ideal candidate will have experience in large, complex environments with a strong knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery, along with excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary starting from £55,000 and comprehensive benefits.
07/07/2026
Full time
Interactive Investor Plc is seeking an Agile Release Manager based in Manchester with a hybrid work model working three days a week in the office. The role involves supporting the management of Agile release schedules across various teams while ensuring timely communication and control of the change pipeline. The ideal candidate will have experience in large, complex environments with a strong knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery, along with excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary starting from £55,000 and comprehensive benefits.
Title: Scrum Master Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester Salary: From: £55,000 interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the Role We are recruiting for a Scrum Master to join the Solution Delivery team and help coach and facilitate our agile squads as we continue to drive agile practises within interactive investor. In this role you will help the team perform at their highest-level vs agreed goals. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating agile ceremonies, and doing things like working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint. Key Responsibilities Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example. Guiding the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver business benefit. Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation. Coaching the team to higher levels of agile and scrum maturity and helping them define their ways of working. Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work and facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving. Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. Building great relationships with the product owner and other stakeholders. Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Arranging and facilitating agile ceremonies such as, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, demo's, planning meetings, and retrospectives in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process. Acts as safeguard for the team. Schedule and manage squad and multi squad level software releases Use SaFe principles to coordinate deliveries across multiple squads. Skills & Experience Required Knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks Previous experience as a team lead Previous experience of collaborating with or within an agile/scrum team Previous experience of delivering change in and I.T function Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures Jira/Confluence experience Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Knowledge of SaFe principles an advantage Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discountson our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
06/07/2026
Full time
Title: Scrum Master Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester Salary: From: £55,000 interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the Role We are recruiting for a Scrum Master to join the Solution Delivery team and help coach and facilitate our agile squads as we continue to drive agile practises within interactive investor. In this role you will help the team perform at their highest-level vs agreed goals. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating agile ceremonies, and doing things like working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint. Key Responsibilities Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example. Guiding the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver business benefit. Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation. Coaching the team to higher levels of agile and scrum maturity and helping them define their ways of working. Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work and facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving. Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. Building great relationships with the product owner and other stakeholders. Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Arranging and facilitating agile ceremonies such as, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, demo's, planning meetings, and retrospectives in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process. Acts as safeguard for the team. Schedule and manage squad and multi squad level software releases Use SaFe principles to coordinate deliveries across multiple squads. Skills & Experience Required Knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks Previous experience as a team lead Previous experience of collaborating with or within an agile/scrum team Previous experience of delivering change in and I.T function Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures Jira/Confluence experience Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Knowledge of SaFe principles an advantage Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discountson our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
Title: Agile Release MAnager Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester Salary: From: £55,000 interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose Of Role Reporting to the Senior Scrum Master, the Agile Release Engineer is responsible for supporting all activities required to ensure oversight, management and control of squad-based releases through development, QA and live. Working closely with the Senior Scrum Master, and the delivery team (including but not limited to Engineering Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Managers, QA managers and Scrum Masters) the Agile Release Engineer will support the planning of ii's release schedule across assigned technologies, managing inter-dependencies both from a technical perspective but also business readiness. The focus of this role is delivery of change through agile CI/CD pipeline delivery, but also works closely with the Service Management Analyst and Implementation Coordinator to ensure alignment and coordination across the entire portfolio. Key Responsibilities As directed by the Senior Scrum Master, work with Project Managers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters to support the management of ii's Agile release schedule across Programmes, Projects, Agile Delivery Squads and Infrastructure Teams. Support the identification and management of interdependencies or risks between all release types and the overall change pipeline, ensuring appropriate communication, reporting and control including escalation to the Senior Scrum Master as required. Support the identification and management of squad change concentration risk through ensuring the volume of change impacting different customer segments and internal departments over given periods of time is acceptable and consumable. Understand end enforce ii's change and release control standards and policies, ensuring that while change is released safely, it is also done in a pragmatic way that doesn't stifle our rate of change and is within the company risk appetite As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, pro-actively manage ii's CI/CD development and test environments working with technical teams to establish best practice, address BAU issues and ensure optimal availability to support the change delivery life cycle. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, work with each technology team to manage the CI/CD pipelines through the identification and management of deployment backlog, risks and dependencies. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, co-ordinate regular deployments of ii's mobile applications across agile delivery squads. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, support implementation management where a change or series of changes touches on multiple platforms with a number of both technical and non-technical teams involved. Contribute to the establishment and management of best practice release management processes, tools, standards and reports Contribute to the establishment of improved processes to enhance release delivery quality and to improve visibility/performance across the portfolio of projects/activities. Contribute to a knowledge management platform and library structure to create, store, and share best practices and documentation from releases. Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for resolution to release & project teams and resolve and/or elevate testing issues where required. Contribute towards a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists. Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with trends/developments and develop expertise in ii services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective change delivery. Support any Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews as required. Contribute to the clear and available reporting on test environment use for agile delivery, including details of any project or workstream actively using any environment. Additionally, this includes ensuring details of code/build versions are also clearly evidenced and available to view at any time. For any test environment issues logged - working with own team, Product Analysts, IT Support areas, Development and QA testing to triage, resolve, retest and close issues in a timely manner - helping to maintain test environments as fit for purpose. This also includes being able to provide clear reporting on issues as required. Skills & Experience Required Planning and Release Management Hands-on experience with Agile/adaptive delivery models, ideally in large, complex environments. Proven knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery gained from experience working in and agile environment Knowledge of SAFe and implementation of agile release trains and managing release schedules across multiple squads. Ability to apply strategic improvements to process remove/manage risks and introduce efficiencies to ways of working Excellent Communicate skills at all levels of the organisation Work to tight deadlines, elevate and prioritise workloads where required Confidently deliver information to mixed audiences Conflict resolution, with the ability to successfully negotiate and influence. Stakeholder Management to senior levels Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel, MS Project preferred but not essential Strong understanding and experience working with workflow collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence Knowledge of the Financial Services industry Good understanding of technology and systems architecture Excellent understanding of development lifecycle, specifically CI/CD An understanding of release and project delivery lifecycles Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Equal Opportunity interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
06/07/2026
Full time
Title: Agile Release MAnager Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester Salary: From: £55,000 interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose Of Role Reporting to the Senior Scrum Master, the Agile Release Engineer is responsible for supporting all activities required to ensure oversight, management and control of squad-based releases through development, QA and live. Working closely with the Senior Scrum Master, and the delivery team (including but not limited to Engineering Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Managers, QA managers and Scrum Masters) the Agile Release Engineer will support the planning of ii's release schedule across assigned technologies, managing inter-dependencies both from a technical perspective but also business readiness. The focus of this role is delivery of change through agile CI/CD pipeline delivery, but also works closely with the Service Management Analyst and Implementation Coordinator to ensure alignment and coordination across the entire portfolio. Key Responsibilities As directed by the Senior Scrum Master, work with Project Managers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters to support the management of ii's Agile release schedule across Programmes, Projects, Agile Delivery Squads and Infrastructure Teams. Support the identification and management of interdependencies or risks between all release types and the overall change pipeline, ensuring appropriate communication, reporting and control including escalation to the Senior Scrum Master as required. Support the identification and management of squad change concentration risk through ensuring the volume of change impacting different customer segments and internal departments over given periods of time is acceptable and consumable. Understand end enforce ii's change and release control standards and policies, ensuring that while change is released safely, it is also done in a pragmatic way that doesn't stifle our rate of change and is within the company risk appetite As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, pro-actively manage ii's CI/CD development and test environments working with technical teams to establish best practice, address BAU issues and ensure optimal availability to support the change delivery life cycle. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, work with each technology team to manage the CI/CD pipelines through the identification and management of deployment backlog, risks and dependencies. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, co-ordinate regular deployments of ii's mobile applications across agile delivery squads. As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, support implementation management where a change or series of changes touches on multiple platforms with a number of both technical and non-technical teams involved. Contribute to the establishment and management of best practice release management processes, tools, standards and reports Contribute to the establishment of improved processes to enhance release delivery quality and to improve visibility/performance across the portfolio of projects/activities. Contribute to a knowledge management platform and library structure to create, store, and share best practices and documentation from releases. Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for resolution to release & project teams and resolve and/or elevate testing issues where required. Contribute towards a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists. Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with trends/developments and develop expertise in ii services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective change delivery. Support any Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews as required. Contribute to the clear and available reporting on test environment use for agile delivery, including details of any project or workstream actively using any environment. Additionally, this includes ensuring details of code/build versions are also clearly evidenced and available to view at any time. For any test environment issues logged - working with own team, Product Analysts, IT Support areas, Development and QA testing to triage, resolve, retest and close issues in a timely manner - helping to maintain test environments as fit for purpose. This also includes being able to provide clear reporting on issues as required. Skills & Experience Required Planning and Release Management Hands-on experience with Agile/adaptive delivery models, ideally in large, complex environments. Proven knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery gained from experience working in and agile environment Knowledge of SAFe and implementation of agile release trains and managing release schedules across multiple squads. Ability to apply strategic improvements to process remove/manage risks and introduce efficiencies to ways of working Excellent Communicate skills at all levels of the organisation Work to tight deadlines, elevate and prioritise workloads where required Confidently deliver information to mixed audiences Conflict resolution, with the ability to successfully negotiate and influence. Stakeholder Management to senior levels Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel, MS Project preferred but not essential Strong understanding and experience working with workflow collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence Knowledge of the Financial Services industry Good understanding of technology and systems architecture Excellent understanding of development lifecycle, specifically CI/CD An understanding of release and project delivery lifecycles Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan- 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life AssuranceandGroup Income Protection Private Medical Insurance- Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well-being Fund- Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts- Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits- Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle Equal Opportunity interactive investor operates in accordance with the UKEqualityAct2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive
Title Java Software Engineer (Mid-Level) Location Hybrid; 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary From £50,000 Who we are interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a mid level Java developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions. Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront. Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team. Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing. Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology. Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain. Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution. Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions. Qualifications Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area. Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms. A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations. Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support. Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall. Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables. Excellent time management and prioritisation. Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to all levels. Technical Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture. Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes. Domain & Technology Expertise Java Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skills. Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis. The whole Spring ecosystem included Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
04/07/2026
Full time
Title Java Software Engineer (Mid-Level) Location Hybrid; 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary From £50,000 Who we are interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a mid level Java developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions. Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront. Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team. Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing. Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology. Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain. Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution. Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions. Qualifications Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area. Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms. A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations. Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support. Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall. Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables. Excellent time management and prioritisation. Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to all levels. Technical Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture. Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes. Domain & Technology Expertise Java Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skills. Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis. The whole Spring ecosystem included Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
Title Java Software Engineer (Mid-Level) Location Hybrid; 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary From £50,000 Who we are interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a mid level Java developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions. Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront. Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team. Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing. Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology. Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain. Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution. Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions. Qualifications Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area. Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms. A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations. Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support. Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall. Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables. Excellent time management and prioritisation. Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to all levels. Technical Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture. Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes. Domain & Technology Expertise Java Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skills. Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis. The whole Spring ecosystem included Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.
03/07/2026
Full time
Title Java Software Engineer (Mid-Level) Location Hybrid; 3 days a week in Manchester, 2 days remote Salary From £50,000 Who we are interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs. We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights. Purpose of the role The role is to design, build and support highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business platforms. We are looking for a mid level Java developer who is excited at building cloud based applications to deploy small change often. You will have a proven skillset that spans OO, DDD and a passion for quality and testing. You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business. Responsibilities As part of the engineering team provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area. Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability. Support the discovery, architecture and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream. Work with the Principal Engineer to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to an existing solutions. Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all of technology disciplines where solutions integrate. Directly contribute towards enabling culture of technical development and innovation within the team, through fit for purpose solution design and R&D activities. Enable the development of the technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront. Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within team. Support the definition of change specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision. Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline. Ensure that these priorities are managed and any risks relating to the defined work are raised appropriately. Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing. Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions and technology. Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer by taking ownership for and management of delegated subsets of the technical domain. Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution. Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions. Qualifications Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area. Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms. A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations. Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support. Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall. Experience delivering CI/CD change into cloud-based environments. Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables. Excellent time management and prioritisation. Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to all levels. Technical Skills Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless. AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture. Expertise in DevOps and containers environments including Kubernetes. Domain & Technology Expertise Java Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and tech training presentation skills. Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis. The whole Spring ecosystem included Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams. Benefits Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays Staff Discounts on our investment products Personal & Well being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation-whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.