Flutter Engineer

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 fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 and 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

What we offer

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We offer a competitive package including:

* Starting holidays of 25 days, increasing to 31 with length of service as well as buy/sell options

* Matched pension contributions up to 6%

* Discretionary bonus scheme

* Free share awards & BAYE scheme

* Private healthcare options & Health Cash Plan

* Free onsite gym

* Enhanced family leave

* Ongoing technical training & professional qualification support

* Hybrid working (minimum 50% Manchester office)

For the full list of benefits and more detail about the role, click apply or visit our careers page.

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office, including one day a month in our Bristol office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you