Senior Software Engineer, Policy Expert
Customer Account
Digital home & car insurance provider
Job no longer available
Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong experience working on the Backend of a technology product
- You want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes, and you want to make data-informed decisions
- You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- You’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- You have some experience with strongly typed languages (Java, C, Scala etc.)
- You think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing
- Proficiency in writing high-quality unit tests, acceptance tests, contract tests and other forms of automated tests
- You can undertake detailed research to solve complex challenges
- You understand systems architecture and scalable systems
- You possess excellent communication skills for effective teamwork and clear discussions with non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- You are familiar with our tech stack
- You have a solid grasp of Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Event-Driven Design, and Test-Driven Development
- You have experience building products end-to-end not necessarily greenfield, from ideation to implementation and support
- You have deep knowledge of TypeScript and React
- You have prior experience in the insurance or financial sector
- You have hands-on experience in projects using AWS Cloud
What the job involves
- As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions, so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how insurance works to effective communication
- This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers
- As a product Software Engineer, you’ll work in a team alongside product owner, marketers, designers, software engineers, data analysts, business analysts, delivery managers, quality engineers and more
- Together you’ll build and support a particular part of Policy Expert. Our teams belong to our wider product led verticals (we use to describe self-governing business units). They are; Home, Pet, Motor, Shared Services, Platform, Pricing / Underwriting / Fraud and Data science
- We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
- Java to write our application code
- Dynamo / Postgres / MySQL / Aurora / S3 for most persistent data storage
- SNS/SQS for our event-driven architecture
- Fargate and Docker to schedule and run our services
- AWS for most of our infrastructure
- React for client face
- NodeJS for serverless / middleware applications
- GraphQL / REST for client API’s
- GitHub Actions for our CI/CD
- Micro services / micro frontends our architecture
- Feature flags / canary releases for incremental delivery
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1M home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Now, with Cinven acquiring a majority shareholder, Policy Expert is in a great position to further accelerate its growth and expand even further in the years to come.
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Intelligent people
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Company benefits
- 💸 We match your pension contributions up to 7%
- 🏥 Private medical & Dental cover
- 📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)
- 😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity
- 🚉 Travel season ticket loan
- 🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
- 🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme
- 🚪 Prayer room in office
Company values
- We act with Expertise
- We work as a Team
- We care about People
- We stick to our Principles
- We get things done
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-Founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
Steve Hardy
(CEO)Previously a Non Executive Director at Roojai, QMetric Group, C-Quence.
People progressing
Paul started as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis and in 2025 further promoted to Senior Product Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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