JOB TITLE: Software Engineer
SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290
LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office Leeds office location.
About This Opportunity
As a Software Engineer within the General Insurance (GI) platform, you'll be responsible for leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary team of Software Engineers, taking accountability for all delivery and operational activities. You'll be passionate about technology, both current and future trends, and will look for opportunities to bring these into the Lab, whilst being a role model for your team and colleagues around you.
Here's how you'll make a difference
- Contribute to the strategic direction for engineering delivery within our teams.
- Lead a culture of continual improvement.
- Driving an 'automation first' approach across the teams.
- Act as a mentor, coach, and role model to GI platform colleagues, implementing a learning culture and a focus on personal and team development.
- Work collaboratively with other colleagues and teams to achieve shared success.
- Lead transformational initiatives across the platform or broader programme.
What you'll need:
- Proven experience in Senior Engineering delivery roles.
- Have evolving knowledge of, and interest in engineering principles, practices, and technologies.
- Strong exposure to modern web technologies especially JavaScript (Node.js or React.js) as well as RESTful APIs and web services.
- Strong exposure to C#.Net.
- Experience with low code platforms or with XML based markup languages such as XAML or HTML.
- Experience in CI and CD would also be an advantage (support and training in this can be provided).
- Expertise in delivering and supporting high-availability, high-performance systems.
- Have effective collaboration and communication skills, able to work and influence across functional boundaries.
- A passion for coaching, developing & motivating colleagues.
About Working For Us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- An annual performance-related bonus.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
- 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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