Software Developer - 8M Ftc

Simplyhealth; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

36 days holiday

Flexible benefits pot

Health plan

Wellbeing hub

Shopping discounts

Recognition awards

Give as you earn

3 volunteering days

Job summary

Simplyhealth is seeking a Software Developer for an 8-month FTC, with hybrid working from the Andover office. You’ll design, build, test and maintain software that supports customers and colleagues across the business.

You’ll translate user stories into technical tasks, estimate work, contribute to code reviews, and uphold security and performance standards while collaborating within a cross-functional delivery team.

Qualifications

• Experience with the software development lifecycle and delivering customer value.
• Familiar with agile methodologies and collaborative delivery.
• Knowledge of testing approaches and quality-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain software solutions for customers and colleagues.
• Translate user stories into technical tasks and deliverable solutions.
• Break down work, estimate feasibility and timelines.
• Produce reliable, secure, and maintainable code.
• Perform code reviews and pair programming to improve quality.
• Consider performance, security, scalability in daily work.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes.
• Share knowledge and coach teammates to improve delivery.

Skills

Software development

Code reviews

Team collaboration

Testing

Security awareness

Job description

Software Developer - 8 month FTC

Hybrid working - Andover office

At Simplyhealth, our purpose is to improve access to healthcare for all in the UK. As a certified B Corp with more than 150 years of heritage, we're committed to making healthcare more affordable, accessible and inclusive for everyone.

We’re looking for a Software Developer to join our Tech community and play a key role in designing, building, testing and maintaining high-quality software products that support our customers, colleagues, and business goals. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on delivering solutions, working collaboratively as part of a cross‑functional delivery team.

Your responsibilities will be:

Software Delivery

• Design, build, test, and maintain software solutions that meet customer, colleague, and business needs.
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear technical tasks and deliverable solutions.
• Break down work, assess technical feasibility, and provide realistic estimates.
• Produce well-structured, reliable, secure, and maintainable code.

Quality & Technical Standards

• Ensure code is well tested, using test-first approaches where appropriate.
• Contribute to code reviews, pairing, and constructive technical feedback.
• Consider performance, security, scalability, and maintainability as part of day-to-day development.
• Apply engineering best practices and follow agreed technology standards.

Collaboration & Ownership

• Work closely with developers, quality engineers, product managers, tech leads, platform engineers, and stakeholders to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Communicate progress, risks, blockers, and technical decisions clearly and early.
• Take ownership of work from initial understanding through to delivery.
• Work collaboratively, supporting shared ownership of outcomes rather than working in isolation.
• Show curiosity and willingness to learn when working with unfamiliar technologies, tools, or parts of the system.
• Look beyond assigned tasks to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities to support the team or improve delivery.
• Take a thoughtful problem-solving approach, using documentation, team knowledge, engineering judgement, and appropriate tools to understand problems and shape practical outcomes.

Coaching & Continuous Improvement

• Support other developers through coaching, pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Share learning and good practice within the team and wider engineering community.
• Keep up to date with relevant tools, technologies, and engineering approaches.
• Look for opportunities to improve engineering quality, team processes, and delivery effectiveness.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

• Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
• 36 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days)
• Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private healthcare scheme, shopping vouchers and more)
• Your own health plan
• Access to a wellbeing hub
• Shopping discounts
• Recognition awards healthcare scheme healthcare scheme
• Give as you earn
• 3 volunteering days

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach. This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more.