Principle Software Engineer, RVU
+ 10% Discretionary Yearly Bonus
2 days a week in office (Greyfriars Road, Cardiff)
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
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The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ 10% Discretionary Yearly Bonus
2 days a week in office (Greyfriars Road, Cardiff)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent understanding of Cloud technologies, and their application to solve problems such as Event/Data Ingestion and 3rd Party API Integrations. As well as a strong appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles
- Deep technical knowledge across modern frameworks (Go, React, .Net, Python), capable of solving undefined, novel, or highly complex problems within a major domain area
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems and can manage the infrastructure and scalability strategy across multiple teams
- Define what "Production Ready" means, ensuring security, resilience, and operational excellence
- You are a gifted communicator who can translate technical complexity into strategic business context, influencing senior leaders and peers effectively
- Actively mentor and sponsor senior talent, elevating engineering capability and culture across large parts of the business
- Proven ability to manage organisational change, driving large-scale programs from ambiguous conception through to successful, measurable strategic impact
- Identify the most critical problems, develop the solution, and execute it without explicit direction
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer who thrives on organisational influence and technical mentorship to tackle our most ambiguous, high-leverage problems that shape the future of our business
- You'll operate with near-complete autonomy and accountability, delivering solutions that require mastery of large-scale, distributed systems
- As a Principal Software Engineer at Confused, you will be the technical leader and strategic voice for an entire vertical or a significant cross-cutting area of our business
- You will be responsible for defining the long-term technical vision, shaping architecture, and driving execution across multiple teams to achieve strategic, company-wide impact, ensuring our systems and processes are world-class, scalable, and aligned with Confused and RVU’s business goals
- Teams will look to you for guidance and you will serve as the escalation point for the most complex technical decisions
- You will be mentoring and pairing with senior and staff engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Define the vision: Own and articulate the long-term technical vision and architectural strategy
- Drive strategic impact: Identify and execute high-leverage technical initiatives (impacting a vertical or the entire organisation) that directly translate into measurable business growth or significant operational efficiency gains
- Architectural stewardship: Design, govern, and audit the most complex and critical systems, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and maintainable over a multi-year horizon
- Technical evolution: Continuously evaluate new tools, technologies, and paradigms, making strategic recommendations to adopt or deprecate them to keep our engineering ecosystem best-in-class
- Organisational influence: Influence and align engineering and product strategy across multiple teams and business units
- Mentorship & coaching: Act as a principal mentor and coach to all engineers, elevating the technical expertise and standards across the entire engineering organisation
- Conflict resolution: Resolve the most high-stakes, cross-team technical and non-technical conflicts, building consensus among senior stakeholders
- Communication: Communicate complex technical decisions and their strategic implications to leadership and non-technical audiences effectively
- Autonomy & accountability: Operate with complete autonomy on high-impact objectives, holding yourself and adjacent teams accountable for long-term success
- Best practice champion: Define, implement, and enforce best-in-class software practices, operational excellence, and quality standards (e.g., CI/CD, production readiness, testing)
- Risk management: Proactively identify and mitigate significant technical debt, security risks, and operational vulnerabilities that could pose a threat to the business’s long-term health
Application process
- Applied
- Review
- Interview
- Hired
- We use Metaview during the interview processes for note taking purposes
- This records and transcribes interviews so the interviewer can fully focus on your conversation, rather than writing
- This has no bearing on the assessment of you as a candidate and you can opt out at any time. Just let us know
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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