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.

We are currently recruiting for a Technical Lead to join our IT function on a permanent basis. You will manage a high performing team whose key priority is to build software and customer experiences that drive, shape and deliver our customer-centric digital transformation.

What you will do:

• Be a line manager that individuals will remember for years to come! You will lead, coach and mentor an Agile squad accountable for shaping and building esure’s future
• Technical Lead for the squad, ensuring collaborative working with Product Owners and Developers to design and build customer facing systems using React frontends, Java microservices and the latest cloud technologies
• Shape and Improve 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)
• Be a part of esure’s engineering community. Strive to actively share technical expertise with the team and champion and drive tech change wider than your squad

What we’d love you to bring:

• A passion for people and a deep love of technology! You will consider yourself a people motivator who has led a software development squad (or small team) in an agile environment to deliver and achieve great things
• Be a technical expert in either backend development with Java 8+ or frontend development with React. Full Stack experience is great but not essential
• Experience in design and development of distributed, scalable, and highly available systems
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and Docker (we use Kubernetes) and a cloud platform (we are an AWS environment)
• An inquisitive mind that thrives in diagnosing and solving complex problems and providing detailed technical analysis
• An advocate for different agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban

What we'll offer in return:

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills, experience and potential
• 28 days annual leave plus 8 flex days (equivalent to bank holidays to be taken as and when suits you)
• Flexible benefits platform - choose the benefits that suit you and your lifestyle
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible / hybrid working model
• Staff discount on our products

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, job share or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.