Engineering Manager - Underwriting & Pricing Platform

Homeprotect Home Insurance; Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Annual bonus up to 30%

Pension with Aegon

Staff discount on Homeprotect

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

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 evolve pricing and underwriting platforms for speed, reliability and scale.

You'll shape the technical roadmap, ensure safe delivery of pricing changes, and drive continuous improvement in engineering metrics while maintaining customer trust.

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 CI/CD, DevOps and automated testing.
• Experience operating production systems with high availability, performance and resilience.
• Experience defining technical strategy balancing delivery with long-term platform investment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Underwriting & Pricing platform engineering team and roadmap.
• Own delivery, reliability and platform health across pricing systems.
• Collaborate with Product, Actuarial, Commercial and Policy admins teams.
• Drive testing automation, deployment discipline and incident response.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
• Promote modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, IaC, observability).

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

Cloud-native development

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 evolve pricing and underwriting platforms for speed, reliability and scale.

You'll shape the technical roadmap, ensure safe delivery of pricing changes, and drive continuous improvement in engineering metrics while maintaining customer trust.