Software Engineer React / .NET

AXA UK plc; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurance provider is looking for an experienced Product Engineer to join their Engineering team. This role focuses on delivering secure solutions and improving digital services. Candidates should have proven experience in developing modern React applications and strong knowledge of state management using Redux. The company offers a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and numerous benefits including a pension scheme and private medical cover. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to their digital roadmap while working in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing modern React applications with TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of state management patterns using Redux Toolkit.
• Proficiency with modern frontend tooling like Vite, ESLint.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure and quality solutions to customers.
• Champion automation in CI/CD DevOps cycle.
• Collaborate across development and testing teams.

Skills

React applications

TypeScript

Redux Toolkit

Responsive user interfaces

Git workflows

API integration

Tools

Azure DevOps

Material-UI

Application Insights

Job description

It's an exciting time to join the Technology team here at AXA Health, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers, streamline, and automate our business processes, whilst ensuring the continued stability and performance of our legacy platforms.

We're looking for an experienced Product Engineer to join our Engineering team, to help delivery of our digital roadmap, develop our people and capabilities, and support Engineering strategy to drive improvements across all teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, where all our teams are value stream aligned with all the different resource types needed to get from idea to done with minimal hand-offs. We are focussed on building out our Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, but involving a significant .NET estate, use of Azure services and React frontend web applications.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Working in an agile delivery team to deliver secure and quality solutions to customers
• Ensuring continual shift of secure, quality and tested code activity left
• Championing automation in the CI/CD DevOps cycle
• Contributing to team ceremonies and planning sessions
• Collaborating across development and testing reducing hand over times and focusing on and supporting the definition of done and the software development lifecycle
• Pairing or mobbing with the engineering team
• Driving continual improvement, identifying areas of inefficiency and demonstrating or facilitating change
• Supporting delivery objectives, life cycle management and technical debt

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of our people in protecting what matters most to our customers. In exchange we offer a series of core and supporting benefits designed to empower our people to thrive both professionally and personally.

We believe in hiring people who possess the appropriate skills and values that align with our vision. Our selection process is fair and equitable, ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to join us.

We are dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion, and we actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we take pride in treating our employees and potential hires with respect and without discrimination based on any Protected Characteristics.

AXA UK are recognised as a Disability Confident Leader. We actively encourage applications from people who face barriers in the workplace due to a disability or long-term health condition. We participate in the Disability Confident 'Offer of Interview' scheme. This means a fair and proportionate number of candidates with long-term health conditions or disabilities who meet the essential criteria of a job will be offered an interview.

Application Requirements

• You'll need to show you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job advert or job description.
• You don't need to share the details of your long term health condition or disability for your application to be considered under this scheme.

As part of your application, you'll be asked if you would like to 'opt in'. To ensure ease of access, every job advert lists a responsible Talent Acquisition contact, who'll be able to connect you with our Accessibility Concierge if you require any support.

Screening and Conduct

As a regulated financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks. Additionally, adherence to the Prudential Regulation Authority's (PRA) Insurance Conduct Standards and the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Conduct Rules will be required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing modern React applications using TypeScript, React Hooks, and functional components
• Strong knowledge of state management patterns using Redux Toolkit and Redux Observable for complex asynchronous workflows
• Proficiency with modern frontend tooling including Vite, ESLint, and module federation for micro-frontend architectures
• Experience building accessible and responsive user interfaces with Material-UI (MUI), styled-components, and emotion
• Solid understanding of testing practices including unit testing with Vitest, React Testing Library, and achieving meaningful code coverage
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, particularly Azure DevOps, automated builds, and deployment workflows
• Experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices
• Strong API integration skills using Axios and RESTful services
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Application Insights
• Ability to work with design systems and maintain consistent UI/UX across applications

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary of up to £65,000 dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts, When will I hear back from you after my interview?

Background Checks

• Who is screened? Everyone, from first-jobbers to senior directors! Often, the higher up the career ladder you are, the more stringent the screening becomes.
• What is screened? Identity and address; qualifications; employment history; credit check; criminal record; directorships.