Senior Platform Engineer, RVU
£70-85k
+ 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews, based on RVU and personal performance
2 days a week in office (Greyfriars Road, Cardiff)
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
Open for applications
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£70-85k
+ 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews, based on RVU and personal performance
2 days a week in office (Greyfriars Road, Cardiff)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and in building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
- Experience of building and designing cost optimised Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
- Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches (SRE), including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
- Experience developing and rolling out Service Level Objectives across an organisation and using them to drive error budgets and alerting
- Deep knowledge and experience with operating containers at scale within the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Experience in building robust, fault-tolerant systems and identifying areas for improvement all in the support of maintaining reliability standards
- Knowledge of incident and problem management practices
- Proficiency in the software development lifecycle, including testing, version control, branching strategies and deployments approaches
- Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
- Experience building and designing APIs or CLIs that solve internal problems or deliver self-service solutions for engineers
- Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily
- You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!
What the job involves
- Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross-functional product teams
- Our platform teams enable our customer-facing teams by providing tooling and solutions that help them to deliver change quickly, safely, and securely - all whilst providing an excellent developer experience and operational excellence
- We are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, scalable, and reliable solutions that enable our internal engineering teams to be high performers
- Excellence: work alongside established and experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding and utilisation of modern technology
- Collaboration: work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
- Autonomy: authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
- Data Driven: utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security and reliability
- Culture: enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch-ups, working groups, and 'All Hands'
- Experience: enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge and expertise in a continuous learning environment
- As a key member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
- Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
- Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
- Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
- Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements
- Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
- Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
- Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation
- As a Senior Platform Engineer at Confused.com you will be expected to:
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
- Manage your time effectively between team and organisational level contributions
- Rotate around the business to build relationships and help upskill other engineers/teams
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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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.
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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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