Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

It’s an opportunity you simply don’t want to miss. You can expect our investment in you to include a highly competitive package, career and development opportunities and flexible benefits built around you and your lifestyle.

We are currently recruiting for Senior Software Engineers on both a permanent and fixed term contract basis.

As part of the wider IT function, you will be the technical lead for a multi-functional team building software and customer experiences that support esure’s business and its ambitious digital transformation

• Key member of a multi-disciplined, robust Agile squad accountable for shaping and building esure’s future
• Technical lead for the squad, working with the product owner and developers to design and build customer facing systems using React frontends, Java microservices and the latest cloud technologies
• Actively sharing technical expertise with the team both as a hands-on developer and mentor
• Improving the engineering practices in the squad including code quality, testing and CI/CD
• Working with SRE engineers to build distributed systems with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability (you build it, you run it)
• Ensure the squad has a clear mission, healthy backlog and agile practices
• Senior member of esure’s engineering community, engaging in tech forums and driving tech change wider than your squad
• Line management of a small team (3-5 engineers) to include; setting objectives, completing appraisals, motivating and personal development

• Specialist in either backend development with Java 8+ or frontend development with React, full stack experience is ideal
• Experience leading a software development squad or small team in an agile environment
• Must have experience in design and development of distributed, scalable, and highly available systems
• Able to coach and mentor team members and lead the tech quality/standards for the squad
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and Docker, ideally with Kubernetes
• Experience working with a cloud platform, ideally AWS
• Exhibits drive and initiative to learn whatever is necessary to explore new and existing solutions, a deep love of technology
• Previous background working in high traffic, highly transactional online environments
• An advocate of different agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, continuous delivery

What we will offer you in return:

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills, experience, and potential
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 flex days (equivalent to bank holidays to be taken as and when suits you)
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible working – including hybrid working post Covid19
• Staff discount on our products
• Private medical cover for eligible colleagues

In light of the current Covid-19 pandemic, we want to emphasise to all applicants that the safety and wellbeing of our candidates and colleagues is esure Group’s number one priority. All interviews will be conducted remotely via a video conference platform to ensure that everyone involved is adhering to the social distancing guidance.