Staff Software Engineer, RVU
Full Stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js
+ 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
More information about location
2 days a week in office
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
Posted today
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
501-1000 employees
Posted today
+ 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a technical expert who raises the whole team's output
- You strike the balance between rigour and urgency: you know when detail matters and when it is a valueless rabbit hole
- You have built everything from MVPs to large scale production systems, and you can debug complex systems well enough that the right improvement becomes obvious
- You keep up with the industry, assess new libraries, tools and approaches on evidence, and adopt the ones that pay off
- Strong TypeScript, and you argue for statically typed languages on their merits
- Deep Node.js ecosystem knowledge (node, npm, yarn), including bundling and dependency management (Bun a plus)
- Proficient with AI tooling, including shipping code via CLI or editor-based LLM agents and using MCP servers
- Solid grasp of the React paradigm (one-way data binding, declarative programming, rules of hooks, common anti-patterns)
- Practical software engineering principles and complexity management (separation of concerns, design patterns, domain-driven design), and a bias towards clean, simple code
- Familiarity with container-based cloud-native applications and patterns such as REST APIs, message passing, horizontal and vertical scaling, and load balancing
- Awareness of web security concerns (SQL injection, XSS, CORS, cookies, authentication and authorisation)
- Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, dbt data pipelines, Fastly, Storybook, component libraries and design systems, Bun
- You will not tick every box on this list, and we would rather you applied than talked yourself out of it. We expect you to keep learning here, and we will back you to do it
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer you will set the technical direction for Financial Services and raise the standard the team holds itself to
- You will work across the full stack (infrastructure, databases, pipelines, servers, CDNs, responsive accessible React components aligned to our design system, real-time metrics and alerting) with product managers, commercial managers, ops executives, data analysts, designers and other engineers
- Most of your day lands on the front end, but you own quality end to end
- You will turn commercial and customer problems into working software, and put a value on the problems worth solving first. You will make the engineers around you better, measured by what the team ships rather than what you ship alone (we do not hire lone wolves)
- You will run code reviews, give and take direct feedback without ego, and keep our applications tested, secure and maintainable
- We already run AI inside live workflows and have several projects with AI at the core. You will find concrete uses for AI that move a metric, then help other teams adopt what actually works. We treat AI fluency as a core requirement, so expect to show, in interview, where you have used AI tooling to ship real work
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With increases in everyday costs presenting a significant challenge to households across the UK right now, RVU’s ecosystem of brands has the potential to provide a one-stop shop for consumers to ensure they are better informed and can save money on their bills.
RVU owns and operates Uswitch, Confused.com, Money.co.uk, Mojo Mortgages and Tempcover in the UK, all of which help millions of people make more informed decisions on a range of products and services for their home, such as energy, mortgages, insurance, broadband and mobile phones.
With the 2022 acquisition of Tempcover adding to the portfolio of brands, RVU is doubling down on the breadth of its product offering - expanding into the temporary insurance market. Tempcover is an insure-tech that brings flexible and affordable insurance solutions to motorists - whether hourly cover or month-long policies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- 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
- Maternity leave: after 12 months of service, you'll receive 26 weeks at full pay, followed by 13 weeks at half pay
- Parental leave: after 12 months of service you'll receive four weeks at full pay, followed by 8 weeks of flexible working
- Adoption leave: after 12 months service - 26 weeks at full pay, followed by 13 weeks at half pay
- £300 ‘Work from Home’ budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- 25 days holiday excl. bank holidays (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans and employee assistance programme
- Up to 22 days per year “working from anywhere”
- Electric vehicles scheme and carbon offsetting scheme
- Free breakfast in the office daily
- Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
- Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Employee discounts programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
Company values
- We believe in making every second count
- We believe in getting better every day
- We believe in winning the right way
- We believe that everything is written in pencil
- We believe in being great people to work with
- We believe that we can be the change we wish to see in the world
- We believe in leaving the wood pile higher than you found it
Company HQ
Fleet, Hampshire
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Leadership
Tariq Syed
(CEO)Joined Red Ventures in 2017 to lead the inception of their European operations, which included the joint acquisition of the ZPG Group and subsequently the creation of RVU.
People progressing
Principal Product Analyst @ Uswitch.
Director of Engineering @ RVU.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at RVU
- 'We can choose to do nothing, we can choose to be angry with the world, or we can choose to take action. We choose action. Not hollow words or quick fixes that make us feel good. Deep-rooted action that will make a lasting impact way beyond the boundaries of our organisation.' Tariq Syed - RVU CEO
- Empower: Our approach to Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) includes executive sponsorship, funding, and professional development for ERG Leaders. Current ERGs are focused on Women, BAME and LGBTQIA+ and Disabilities.
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