Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Scale Insurance Tech

Ki; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Job summary

Ki is seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer to join its Development team in the United Kingdom. You will contribute across the web stack, design and implement scalable features, and collaborate with product and UX teams to deliver high-quality, user-focused software.

The role emphasizes iterative delivery, API design, and mentoring colleagues while advancing Ki's engineering principles in a fast-paced, fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a mid-senior level engineer across a modern web stack.
• Strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modelling).
• Professional experience with a server-side language, ideally JVM based.

Responsibilities

• Build robust and scalable software for business critical, web-based applications.
• Build eye-catching, functional, efficient, and reusable web and mobile-based sites that drive these web applications.
• Design, build, test, document and maintain API's and integrations.
• Ensure quality control using industry standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing, and code review.
• Work with the Product team to understand end-user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution.
• Document technical design and analysis work.
• Assess current system architecture and identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
• Build mock-ups or prototypes to explore and troubleshoot new initiatives.
• Work with the Product team and UX designers to review designs, implement new features, and ensure user experience is top level.
• Explore new ideas and emerging technologies, develop prototypes quickly.
• Uphold and advance the engineering team's principles and ways of working.
• Serve as a domain expert for one or more of Ki's core technologies.
• Mentor and coach colleagues in both engineering and business domain subjects.

Skills

Java

React

TypeScript

JVM

REST APIs

CI/CD

Cloud

Git

Scrum/Kanban

Jira

HTML/CSS

Testing

Tools

Maven

Git

Jira

Job description

Ki is seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer to join its Development team in the United Kingdom. You will contribute across the web stack, design and implement scalable features, and collaborate with product and UX teams to deliver high-quality, user-focused software.

The role emphasizes iterative delivery, API design, and mentoring colleagues while advancing Ki's engineering principles in a fast-paced, fintech environment.