- Senior
- Optionales Büro in London
Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office
Location: London Bridge (once a month to Fleet)
About Tempcover:
Location: London Bridge (once a month to Fleet)
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.
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 Golang.
- Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement
- Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on engineering best practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting.
Our commitment to you:
At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.
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 is also a plus
Experience with the following:
- Cloudflare, Fastly
- React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS are a nice to have
What we offer:
We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable.
Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected
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