Senior Software Engineer (GoLang)

Tempcover; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% discretionary yearly bonus

Hybrid work pattern: 2 in-office days

Employer-matching pension up to 7.5%

£300 work from home budget

Enhanced parental leave

25 days holiday (30 with years) + 2 my

Free gym in office

Calm & Peppy app access

Job summary

Tempcover is hiring a Senior Engineer in London to help overhaul and modernise its insurance tech systems. You will own critical components, drive Go adoption, and work across public-facing and internal services with a focus on reliability and performance.

The role offers a hybrid pattern with in-office days in Tower Bridge and monthly Fleet office visits, plus a generous benefits package and a strong culture of learning and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in building large-scale Go applications.
• Experience with AWS services (Lambdas, DynamoDB) and Azure DevOps.
• Containerisation and IaC with Terraform; SST a plus.
• Knowledge of design patterns and development methodologies.
• Experience with React/Typescript/Astro/NodeJS is a plus.
• Strong collaboration and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Evolve, enhance, and modernise large-scale systems for rapid adaptability and ongoing improvement.
• Drive adoption of Go and related technologies.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of systems.

Skills

Golang

Observability

Mentoring

Team collaboration

CI/CD mindset

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

SST

Cloudflare

React

Typescript

NodeJS

Job description

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office and 1 time per month to our Fleet office

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!

Department: Engineering

Location: London

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office and 1 time per month to our Fleet office

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!

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.

About The Role

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.

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!

Our commitment to you

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

• 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
• Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.