Staff Software Engineer
Company
RVU
Location
London
Employment Hours
Full Time
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Job Requirements/Description
Staff Software Engineer 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 InsureTech industry, we would love to hear from you.
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 Staff Engineer who can bring a depth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of 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. The platform engineering team enables our engineers to quickly build and run safe, secure and cost effective systems in our public cloud.
What you'll be doing:
We hold ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and community members. We embrace our differences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment that reflects the world we live in. What we're looking for: The highest level of proficiency developing applications using most of the following:
hackajob is collaborating with RVU to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.
Staff Software Engineer 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 InsureTech industry, we would love to hear from you.
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 Staff Engineer who can bring a depth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of 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. The platform engineering team enables our engineers to quickly build and run safe, secure and cost effective systems in our public cloud.
What you'll be doing:
- Effectively evolve, enhance, and modernise large-scale systems to enable rapid adaptability and continuous improvement.
- Improve the performance, reliability and scalability of our .NET 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
- Drive the adoption of new technologies like Go and Python.
- Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement
- Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on engineering best practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting.
We hold ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and community members. We embrace our differences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment that reflects the world we live in. What we're looking for: The highest level of proficiency developing applications using most of the following:
- C# ASP.NET, .Net Core
- AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable in Azure and Azure devops
- Containerisation and IaC approach (Terraform it's definitely a plus)
- A solid understanding of development methodologies and design patterns
- Golang/Python are also a plus
- Cloudflare, Fastly
- React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS are a nice to have