Company Description
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.
Job Description
We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our technology team! You will be our technical expert for a squad building software and customer experiences that are market leading and support our digital, data driven business.
This is a great opportunity to work on industry leading products and become a pivotal part of our future. We are looking for someone who has extensive backend development experience with Java and understands what its like to work in an ever changing, Agile environment.
What you'll do:
- Key technical member of a high performing Agile squad accountable for shaping our products and customer journeys
- An expert developer, working with developers to design and build customer facing systems using Java microservices and the latest cloud technologies?
- Actively sharing technical expertise with the team both as a hands-on developer, coach 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)?
- Senior member of esure's engineering community, engaging in tech forums and driving tech change wider than your squad?
Qualifications
We would love you to bring!
- Senior Developer experience in a scaled Agile environment, with delivery partners and 3rd party applications.
- Strong technical expertise in Java, Sprint Boot and Microservices.
- Proficient in Spring Boot; Apache Kafka experience is desirable
- Expertise in microservices, database programming, event streaming, and queueing technologies in a cloud-based environment
- The ability to tell a technical story / concepts to non-technical audiences in a way that is digestible
- Knowledge and practice of code quality techniques like continuous integration, unit testing, and peer reviews
- Passionate about keeping up to date with the latest technology trends and tools
- Someone who wants to knowledge transfer between individuals and teams. You'll be a strong coach and mentor who enjoys sharing your experiences
Additional Information
Why choose us?
This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure...
- A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
- A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure's success
- Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
- Benefits just for you: our hub - My Benefits Box - is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
- Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we'll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
- Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business - for work and play. So, it's no surprise our people consistently rate 'making friends at work' one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
- More flexibility for you: we're a proud supporter of the ABI's Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
- Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself - like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
- A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn't be more important to us. That's why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
- Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.
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.