Lead Software Engineer

Aviva; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on innovative solutions in the insurance sector. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with talented professionals to drive customer satisfaction. You will play a key role in enhancing development practices and ensuring high-quality delivery while enjoying a supportive work environment that values flexibility and well-being. With a competitive salary and a range of exciting perks, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking organization.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Free Aviva shares through Matching Share Plan

Supportive policies including parental leave

Flexible benefits including sustainability options

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Experience in various programming languages with a willingness to learn new ones.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to deliver excellent customer outcomes through continuous development.
• Implement improvements to enhance development standards and practices.

Skills

Go

Agile

DevOps

AWS

Stakeholder Management

People Leadership

Tools

Typescript

React

Next.Js

HTML/CSS

Docker

GitHub Actions

AWS – CDK

Dynamo DB

Job description

Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack. National Salary Circa £80,000. London Salary Circa £95,000.

Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities? We are currently recruiting for Senior Software Engineers (Full Stack) with a strong programming background, who love to be hands-on and get enjoyment out of solving complex problems. If you like to challenge the status quo and think differently, we would really like you to be a part of our exciting new team.

Aviva Zero is a greenfield Personal Lines insurer headquartered in London, set with the ambition to be the best in the UK market. It will combine the pace, focus, and test and learn mentality of a start-up with the expertise, and financial backing of Aviva.

A bit about the job:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will partner with Product Owners, SMEs and the rest of the team to deliver excellent and timely customer outcomes through continuous development and delivery. You will implement improvements to development standards and practices to increase the quality and efficiency of delivery. You will provide technical oversight and undertake design and code reviews to ensure systems meet functional and non-functional requirements.

Aviva operates a “smart working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office. This role is based in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich or Sheffield.

Our Tech Stack – (experience with all of the below is not required)

UI: Typescript, React, Next.Js, HTML / CSS, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS – CDK, ECS, ALB, VPC.

APIs: Go, Rest, CDK. AWS – CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo DB, Event Bridge, S3, Serverless and event driven architecture.

Platforms: Go, CDK, AWS.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience developing across a wide variety of programming languages with an appetite to learn and implement new languages such as ‘Go’.
• Well-versed in modern development practices including Agile and continuous deployments, DevOps and either AWS, Azure or Google cloud.
• Experience with contributing your ideas to the team on new technologies, solutions, and delivery approaches.
• Work in a collaborative environment, working through challenges with colleagues whilst having fun along the way.
• Experience of stakeholder management including at a senior level and experience of people leadership with a passion for developing others through mentoring and coaching.

What you’ll get for this role:

• National Salary Circa £80,000. London Salary Circa £95,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications).
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part-time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here.

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