Software Engineer
Cheltenham - UK
Job Summary
At Broadridge weve built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If youre passionate about developing your career while helping others along the way come join the Broadridge team.
Role overview
Were looking for a Software Engineer to help shape the technical direction architecture standards and delivery of our core platform.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining software engineering depth with pragmatic architectural judgement. Youll contribute directly in the codebase while guiding design and delivery across services APIs event flows BFFs and selected frontend components within an event-driven architecture.
Our platform is built primarily with C# .NET PostgreSQL AWS Blazor and MudBlazor with services running across Lambda ECS and EC2. We continue to evolve our engineering practices tooling and platform capabilities as the platform grows.
We take an AI-first approach to engineering with AI-assisted development embedded into day-to-day workflows. This role will help drive effective adoption of those practices and support the design implementation operation and governance of selected AI agents and agent-enabled workflows.
While this role does not include line management it does involve strong technical leadership through mentoring design guidance and raising engineering standards across the team.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership across design implementation and delivery
Contribute hands-on in the codebase and model strong engineering practices
Help shape architecture across microservices event-driven systems APIs BFFs and frontend applications
Guide the design of scalable secure and maintainable software solutions
Work with architects and engineers to turn technical direction into practical outcomes
Define and promote engineering standards patterns and best practices
Support engineers through code reviews design reviews mentoring and technical problem-solving
Collaborate with product delivery and business stakeholders to align solutions with priorities
Translate requirements into clear solution designs and actionable technical work
Identify technical risks bottlenecks dependencies and opportunities for improvement
Contribute to AWS-based architecture and engineering practices including environments using Lambda ECS and EC2
Improve observability reliability performance security and operational readiness across the platform
Contribute to Jenkins pipelines and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and delivery efficiency
Help embed AI-assisted development into engineering workflows across design coding testing and documentation
Support the design operation and continuous improvement of selected AI agents and agent-enabled workflows
Help define and apply appropriate guardrails governance and quality controls for AI-enabled tools
Maintain clear technical documentation for architecture services event flows pipelines AI agents and key decisions
Requirements
Strong commercial experience in software engineering with significant hands-on experience in C#
Experience designing and building production microservices APIs and distributed systems
Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous integration patterns
Experience working with BFF patterns and service-oriented frontend integration approaches
Strong experience with relational databases ideally PostgreSQL
Strong grounding in software design principles object-oriented programming design patterns and maintainable system design
Experience contributing to or leading technical design and architecture decisions
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices; Jenkins experience is strongly preferred
Understanding of build automation deployment pipelines release processes and engineering workflows
Experience with testing code reviews and software quality practices
Meaningful hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of day-to-day engineering work
Practical understanding of AI-first software development
Experience contributing to supporting or governing the use of AI agents or LLM-powered engineering workflows
Ability to break down complex technical problems and guide delivery through clear pragmatic technical direction
Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with engineers stakeholders and architects
Experience mentoring or technically guiding other engineers
Nice to have:
Experience with AWS Lambda ECS and EC2
Experience with Docker and container-based development
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and environment automation
Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure-aware development
Experience with messaging event streaming or related event-driven technologies
Experience with Blazor and MudBlazor
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling in distributed systems
Experience defining governance controls or operating models for AI agents or AI-enabled internal tools
Experience working in a growing product or platform engineering environment
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We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative engaging and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe understood and valued and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a companyand ultimately a communitythat recognizes and celebrates everyones unique perspective.
Use of AI in Hiring
As part of the recruiting process Broadridge may use technology including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness accuracy and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify misrepresent or disguise information in an application resume assessment or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.
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About Company
Broadridge, a global technology leader with solutions that power investing, governance, and communications for clients and the financial industry.