Software Engineer (Mobius)

Open GI is a leading software development company and a trusted partner to the general insurance industry. Based across the UK and Europe, our support and development services make us a truly diverse organization that offers a range of IT solutions to insurance brokers, insurers, and managing general agents.

It is our mission to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of Choice to the UK General Insurance market. Our people are placed at the heart of this and diversity, equality and inclusion are central to everything we do.

We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our people. No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape where the company will be in the future. We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.

Position:

We are looking for a technical contributor who can apply the knowledge of tools, engineering principles, programming languages, and technical practices to how and what is built to produce well-crafted quality software. You will:

• Set an example for technical best practices
• Be continually aware of emerging technological trends
• Be aware of the scalability and performance of Open GI systems
• Pair to deliver new product features as quickly, reliably, and efficiently as possible
• Understand the responsibilities of Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA’s, and your responsibility within the team

Your key responsibilities

• Getting code into production: ability to get code of all types – including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes and experiments – into production, or into the hands of users, safely, rapidly, and sustainably
• Participate in team estimation, understanding the purpose and value
• Test Driven Development: designs and develops tests to specify and validate what the code will do with the goal to make the code clearer, simple and bug-free
• Ability to write, maintain and design the business logic of a software application, the data or services requested are available, as well as create and maintain the core databases, data, and application program interfaces (APIs) to other backend processes
• Ability to follow established secure coding guidelines and understand the importance of always shifting left on security
• Clean Code: The understanding of the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code.
• Continuous Integration: Ability to write code in a way that supports Continuous Integration of code, that is, frequently committing changes to a single trunk or master
• Requirement Analysis and Articulation: ability to understand business requirements and what is required for the scope of work in hand
• Emotional Intelligence: recognizes, understands, and manages their own emotions and recognizes the emotions of others
• Collaboration: works jointly with others to co-create and achieve a common goal. This includes learning, practising, techniques, and frameworks that foster collaborative working environments
• Ability to “own” one or more features

Requirements:

What you’ll need to succeed

Experience:

• Previous software development experience, with expertise in C# and front end frameworks such as Angular, React or Vue (preferably Angular), and knowledge or experience with cloud providers (preferably Azure).
• Experience working with Extreme Programming methods
• Experience supporting their code running in a production environment

Skills:

• Adaptability
• Trust
• Communicating and influencing
• Continuous improvement
• Working with others
• Customer focus
• Responding to change
• Decisiveness
• Problem solving

Aptitudes:

• Drives to outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Ownership and accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and trade-offs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
• Eagerness to Learn – As a full stack developer you will be expected to work across a range of technologies e.g. C sharp, SQL, Azure, GIT and infrastructure as code, where support & training is available and encouraged as a principle of team working.
• Continuous improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.
• Improving CI/CD practices: suggests improvements to existing practices in the team so that there is an uplift in the quality of the product. Able to research new tools to enhance, measure and visualise quality, and implement them with the team’s support. Recognise the cause for falls in quality and takes actions to rectify them.

Other information:

Mission and Values

Our mission is to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of choice for the UK General Insurance Market. Our values are central to this vision, as they represent how we collaborate how we work together in synergy and continually deliver for our customers:

• Accountability: We take personal pride in finding solutions and achieving results
• Innovation: We lead the market by being proactive, product-led and forward thinking
• Teamwork: We work collaboratively, recognising and celebrating success
• Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and respect

We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.

Benefits package

• Salary of Circa £44,000 depending on skills and experience
• Company pension
• Bonus opportunity
• Life assurance and critical illness cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Perkbox – an exclusive platform offering a wide range of discounts and benefits
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, increasing to 26 days per annum after three years of service & a holiday purchase scheme
• A hybrid approach to work
• Opportunity for a more flexible approach to start, finish, and lunchtimes to allow you to better manage events outside of work
• Social clubs - whether you’re into your cycling, crafts, or other hobbies, we have a number of groups at Open GI where individuals who enjoy the same pursuits can get together
• Wellbeing – wills at work scheme, employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders

Please note that we are looking for candidates who are currently located within a 50 mile radius of our Worcester or Winchester offices for this role.

To apply for this role please click the apply button and send us your covering letter and CV.