Lead Engineer

WTW; Reigate; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading InsurTech company is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive the delivery of innovative solutions. This position combines technical expertise with management responsibilities, enabling you to guide teams while ensuring the highest standards of performance and reliability in software development.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive workplace culture

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical implementations and guidance.
• Proven skills in both front and back-end development.
• Strong understanding of cloud technology, primarily Azure.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and lead scrum teams in implementation.
• Contribute to SaaS software design and development.
• Conduct POCs using latest technologies.

Skills

API-first design

Distributed Systems

Backend development

C# .NET Core

DevOps principles

Software engineering best practices

Test automation

Cloud technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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The Role

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market-leading InsurTech solutions. You will be working in flexible agile squads delivering value on multiple greenfield workstreams in the delivery family to deliver core foundational functionality that will be used by multiple SaaS product offerings across the business.

Description

The Role

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market-leading InsurTech solutions. You will be working in flexible agile squads delivering value on multiple greenfield workstreams in the delivery family to deliver core foundational functionality that will be used by multiple SaaS product offerings across the business.

Although largely a technical expert, guiding the team, you will be expected to also be hands on role as necessary. You will have started your career as a software engineer working across a wide range of technologies to deliver complex SaaS commercial applications. A sound technical background is essential to be successful in this role, however, this opportunity will also encompass many management dimensions such as project execution, stakeholder management, team engagement, recruitment, release management and continuous process improvement.

You will play a key role in designing and creating new features and enhancing existing code whilst ensuring the multiple micro services that team is responsible for continue to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

The Responsibilities

• Work with the Lead System Architect to define the architecture the individual scrum teams will implement
• Contribute to the design of SaaS software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead and guide implementation of product code, following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance.
• Lead and guide implementation of test-related code (unit tests, test frameworks and associated automated test cases).
• Review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt.
• Conduct PoC’s using the latest technologies and present the findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Implement high-performance solutions targeting Azure using IaC.
• Optionally take on people management responsibilities.
  
  

Qualifications

The Requirements

Skills

The technology stack is primarily Angular, C#, and Azure along with other suitable technologies guided by our internal tech radar. We are therefore looking for developers with both front and back-end skills to complement our existing teams, hence candidates will need to demonstrate:

• Experience (or demonstrable knowledge of) API-first design
• Fundamental knowledge of Distributed Systems and Messaging patterns
• Experience with backend development: RESTful API’s and services for Microsoft cloud deployments using C# .NET Core, Azure infrastructure and services, JSON/XML.
• Experience of working with cloud technologies, specifically the Azure stack.
• Strong appreciation of DevOps principles, with the ability to create automated processes to continuously deliver SaaS products on a regular cadence.
• Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented, design patterns, SOLID principles.
• Experience with software development ecosystem (IDE’s, version control, test automation/CI, etc.).
• Strong appreciation of building flexible cross-functional full-stack squads with shift-left DevOps, SRE and QA culture.
  
  

Other Highly Desirable, But Not Essential Skills Are

• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• An appreciation of UX principles, ability to iterate commercial-quality GUI implementations working from wireframes/mockups and other assets produced by UX designers.
• Experience with and an interest in growing in areas of people and team management.
• Familiarity with Python, Machine Learning and data pipelines
• Familiar with Pulumi, ARM templates or other Infrastructure as Code technologies
• Experience of Host, Network and Perimeter Security design and implementation.
  
  

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.

At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a ”hybrid” style, with a mix of remote, in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and “hybrid” is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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