Senior Software Engineer

RVU Co UK; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance and modernize systems in a hybrid work environment. Key responsibilities include driving technology adoption, improving reliability, and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate has strong Golang and AWS experience, alongside knowledge of containerisation. This role offers a discretionary bonus, generous leave policies, and a supportive workplace culture committed to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

10% discretionary yearly bonus

Hybrid working approach

Employer matching pension contributions

Work from Home budget

Private medical cover

25 days holiday increasing to 30 days

Qualifications

• Proficiency in developing applications using Golang and AWS.
• Understanding of containerisation and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with modern development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and modernise large-scale systems for adaptability.
• Drive technology adoption and improve system reliability.
• Mentor junior engineers and facilitate collaboration.

Skills

Strong Golang knowledge

Knowledge of AWS products

Containerisation and IaC

C# ASP.NET

Experience with React

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office
Location: Tower Bridge (once per month to Fleet)

About Tempcover:

Tempcover is at the forefront of the fast-growing world of short term insurance. Our mission is to make car insurance flexible, quick, and easy for drivers. We’ve sold millions of policies that have helped drivers get where they need to go, but we’re not finished there. We’re growing our team to help us continue in that mission.

If you are extraordinary at what you do and want to be a part of a rapidly growing business at the cutting edge of the Insurtech industry, we would love to hear from you.

Tempcover is currently undertaking an overhaul of its systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Senior Engineer who can bring experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with ownership, empowerment and impact.

Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal.

What you'll be doing

• Effectively evolve, enhance, and modernise large-scale systems to enable rapid adaptability and continuous improvement.
• Drive the adoption of technologies like Go.
• Improve the performance, reliability and scalability of our systems
• Develop and drive automation for deployment, monitoring, and scaling of infrastructure. Build tools and processes to enable continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
• Make data guided decisions that impact core business metrics and processes
• Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches, including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
• Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement
• Mentor more junior engineers, providing guidance on engineering best practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting.

What we're looking for

The highest level of proficiency developing applications using most of the following:

• Strong Golang knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable in Azure and Azure devops environments
• Containerisation and IaC approach (Terraform, SST are definitely a plus)
• A good understanding of development methodologies and design patterns
• C# ASP.NET, .Net Core also a plus but not necessary
• Cloudflare
• Experience with React, Typescript, Astro and NodeJS are definitely a plus

Our commitment to you: At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What we offer

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

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