Engineering Manager - Underwriting & Pricing Platform

Homeprotect; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Annual bonus and pension

Staff discounts

Job summary

Homeprotect is seeking a product-minded Engineering Manager to lead the Underwriting & Pricing engineering capability. You will build and grow a high-performing team, partner with Product, Actuarial and Commercial stakeholders, and ensure our pricing platforms evolve safely while enabling faster business change.

You'll lead a long-lived product engineering team responsible for reliability, evolution and technical health of this domain, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading an engineering team with accountability for people, delivery, technical health and operational excellence.
• Strong technical background with architecture and distributed backend systems.
• Hands-on understanding of modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, DevOps and automated testing.
• Experience operating production systems with high availability, performance and resilience.
• Experience defining technical strategy balancing immediate delivery with long-term platform investment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a long-lived product engineering team responsible for the reliability, evolution and health of the Underwriting & Pricing domain.
• Define and evolve the team's technical roadmap balancing business priorities with long-term sustainability.
• Ensure pricing and underwriting changes are delivered safely through robust testing and automation.
• Modernise legacy platforms while maintaining operational stability and customer trust.
• Drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, reliability and operational excellence.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Architecture & design

CI/CD & DevOps

Cloud-native development

Strategic thinking

Education

Experience leading long-lived product engineering teams

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Homeprotect is seeking a product-minded Engineering Manager to lead the Underwriting & Pricing engineering capability. You will build and grow a high-performing team, partner with Product, Actuarial and Commercial stakeholders, and ensure our pricing platforms evolve safely while enabling faster business change.

You'll lead a long-lived product engineering team responsible for reliability, evolution and technical health of this domain, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform