Lead Software Engineer, Aviva

£95k

Plus bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s and up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

AWS

GCP

Azure

Senior and Expert level

London

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Insurance, wealth and retirement business

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Insurance, wealth and retirement business

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

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£95k

AWS

GCP

Azure

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Company mission

With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities?
We are currently recruiting for Senior Software Engineers (Full Stack) with a strong programming background, who love to be hands-on and get enjoyment out of solving complex problems
If you like to challenge the status quo and think differently, we would really like you to be a part of our exciting new team
Experience developing across a wide variety of programming languages with an appetite to learn and implement new languages such as ‘Go’
Well-versed in modern development practices including Agile and continuous deployments, DevOps and either AWS, Azure or Google cloud
Experience with contributing your ideas to the team on new technologies, solutions, and delivery approaches
Work in a collaborative environment, working through challenges with colleagues whilst having fun along the way
Experience of stakeholder management including at a senior level and experience of people leadership with a passion for developing others through mentoring and coaching

What the job involves

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will partner with Product Owners, SME’s and the rest of the team to deliver excellent and timely customer outcomes through continuous development and delivery
You will implement improvements to development standards and practices to increase the quality and efficiency of delivery
You will provide technical oversight and undertake design and code reviews to ensure systems meet functional and non-functional requirements
Our Tech Stack – (experience with all of the below is not required)
UI: Typescript, React, Next.Js, HTML / CSS, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS – CDK, ECS, ALB, VPC
API’s: Go, Rest, CDK. AWS – CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo DB, Event Bridge, S3, Serverless and event driven architecture
Platforms: Go, CDK, AWS

Salary benchmarks

Our take

With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.

Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.

Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.

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Insights

Led by a woman

2% employee growth in 12 months

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Company

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Leadership

Amanda Blanc

(CEO, not founder)

Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.

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