Staff Engineer: Pricing & Underwriting Platform

Avantia; Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Annual bonus up to 30%

Pension

Staff discount on Homeprotect’s own保险

Life insurance

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Homeprotect is recruiting a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction of the Underwriting & Pricing domain as the platform modernises. You’ll work across teams to enable quick, safe pricing and underwriting changes with autonomy and influence beyond a single team.

You will own architecture decisions, define standards, mentor engineers and partner with product, actuarial and commercial colleagues to translate pricing strategy into implementable solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent across multiple teams.
• Strong architecture and engineering standards definition and documentation.
• Influences engineering decisions across teams without formal authority.
• Hands-on with at least one modern backend language and cloud-native practices.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and architecture for the Underwriting & Pricing domain.
• Lead cross-team initiatives from design through delivery.
• Act as the technical point of contact for dependent engineering teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering practices.

Skills

Staff engineer experience

Architecture direction

Engineering leadership

CI/CD and automated testing

Cloud platforms (Azure/GCP)

Backend languages (C# or Java)

Observability and cloud-native

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Python

Job description

Homeprotect is recruiting a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction of the Underwriting & Pricing domain as the platform modernises. You’ll work across teams to enable quick, safe pricing and underwriting changes with autonomy and influence beyond a single team.

You will own architecture decisions, define standards, mentor engineers and partner with product, actuarial and commercial colleagues to translate pricing strategy into implementable solutions.