Senior Software Engineer Job In London

Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Backend Developer to join UnderwriteMe's Engineering team to work on our Protection Platform product.

UnderwriteMe’s vision is a simple one, to help everyone get protected. Our vision is supported by our mission to use data and disruptive technology to transform our partners and the markets in which they operate.

The Protection Platform is revolutionizing the insurance industry with our single-sourcing platform. With partnerships with eight leading insurers in the UK market, we are committed to delivering value and convenience to our users.

Currently, we are undergoing a significant business transformation to transition our platform into a SaaS business. This transformation includes significant changes to our business model, platform features, UI/UX, and overall user experience to enhance the value proposition for our customers.

Team outputs/ objectives

1. Evolving the product to reinforce its leading position on the protection market, and to develop new offerings.
2. Implementing simple and efficient solutions to explore product features.
3. Considering data as first-class citizen to support product team decisions and provide valuable insights to our partners.
4. Applying high engineering standards to empower our product in these challenging times. This involves both contributing to and maintaining our existing systems/codebases and greenfield development as part of our architectural modernization initiative.

We’re interested in candidates who have...

1. Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product.
2. A proven track record of delivering simple and effective software solutions with a “You Are not Going To Need It” mindset.
3. A product mindset: you own the product, you care about customer outcomes, and you want to make data-informed decisions.
4. Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity.
5. Experience modernizing a software platform incrementally.

Essential Technical Experience

1. Delivered real world solutions using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach.
2. Good understanding of Clean Code and approaches like Ports & Adapters.
3. Continuous Delivery (CD) mindset.
4. Trunk based development.
5. Collaborative approach to building software such as pair programming.
6. Delivered reliable, robust and scalable solutions on a Cloud platform.
7. Ownership of the end-to-end software solution including the necessary infrastructure, observability and business metrics.
8. Deep knowledge of our preferred tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, k8s, AWS, Datadog.

Desirable Technical Experience

1. Exposure to architectural approaches such as modular monoliths or microservices.
2. An understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and the use of approaches like Event Storming.
3. Event-driven architectures.
4. Design using an API first approach.
5. Integrating and building solutions with our partners such as Auth0, customer.io.
6. Good working knowledge of our legacy tech stack: grails, groovy, spock.

About UnderwriteMe

UnderwriteMe is an Insurtech software business and subsidiary of Pacific Life Re (PL Re), a global life and pensions reinsurance firm. We have a vision to help everyone purchase protection insurance by using data and disruptive technology to transform our partners and markets in order to make their underwriting processes as quick and efficient as possible.

Our core products are:

1. a best-in-market Underwriting Rules Engine which can be used to automate any structured data within the underwriting journey, and which is sold in the UK & Ireland, Asia-Pacific and North America.
2. the Protection Platform, an end-to-end quote and buy marketplace for Protection in the UK.

Working for UnderwriteMe

Joining UnderwriteMe means being part of a technology company that is committed to bringing a fresh and dynamic approach to insurance. You’d be working with a team of highly technical experts made up of people with backgrounds in software, fintech, and insurance. Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step.

Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and wellbeing initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events, and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

As part of our commitment to accessibility for all, UnderwriteMe will, upon the request of the applicant, provide accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs, and we will consult with you to ensure suitable accommodation is provided.

UnderwriteMe is transforming the life insurance industry through technology by bringing Insurers, Intermediaries and Customers closer together in the marketplace. We recognise the need to change the life insurance application journey from a complicated, inefficient experience to one that makes the buying process easier and faster for customers and advisers alike. Founded in 2012, our journey started with the Underwriting Rules Engine and Protection Platform in the UK, and we have now grown to become a leading InsurTech provider across Europe, Asia and Australia.