- Senior
- Office in Cardiff
Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple: take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover, and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services.
RVU’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.
Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech- driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.
We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web. As Staff Engineer you will be involved in our new 'next generation architecture' project, with high impact work that will shape our technology landscape.
What you will be responsible for
Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology
Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
Autonomy: Authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance & reliability
Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and All Hands
Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.
As a Staff Software Engineer at Confused.com you will be expected to
As a Staff Software Engineer at Confused.com you will be expected to
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
- Manage your time effectively between team and org level contributions
- Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier
What we look for in you
- Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines, such as Marketing, Data Analytics & Product Owners
- Experience of high traffic consumer facing websites and working with React. We have also recently started using Expo, so any experience with that would be a bonus
- Good understanding of Cloud technologies, and their application to solve problems such as Event/Data Ingestion and 3rd Party API Integrations. As well as a strong appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles
- A breadth of knowledge about all aspects of software development and familiarity with procedural & functional languages, preferably having experience with Databricks, Python and SQL.
- Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
- Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily
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 offer
We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:
- Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
- Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
- Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Electric vehicles scheme
- Health insurance
- Access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected
