Senior Software Engineer , RVU
+ 10% Discretionary Yearly Bonus
2+ days a week in office (Tower Bridge, London)
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
2+ days a week in office (Tower Bridge, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Frontend: TypeScript, Astro and/or Next.js, React, HTML, CSS
- Backend: Node.js, Go, RESTful APIs, OpenAPI
- Cloud: AWS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront
- Infrastructure as Code: SST, Terraform, CDK, Pulumi or similar
- Testing: integration and end-to-end testing, component story testing, and visual regression testing
- CI/CD: Automated testing and deployment pipelines
- Observability: Analytics platforms, error monitoring and performance tracking
- Cloudflare experience, including Workers, CDN or load balancing
- Builder.io or other visual/content tooling experience
- 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!
- Has a track record of leading and shipping significant work in a senior engineering role
- Is comfortable working in ambiguity and can help shape work
- Has strong product instincts and can reason about trade-offs with product managers, designers and data colleagues
What the job involves
- Tempcover are currently undertaking an overhaul of our systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can bring experience, judgement and curiosity to help shape this journey; working in a role with ownership, empowerment and impact
- Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal
- Design and build high-quality customer-facing experiences using modern web technologies, SSR frameworks and type-safe API integrations
- Work across insurance flows, making improvements that affect conversion, reliability, performance and customer experience
- Make pragmatic technical trade-offs around performance, flexibility, simplicity and delivery speed
- Build and maintain backend services and integrations that support our insurance journeys
- Work with infrastructure, CI/CD and observability to help the team ship safely and often
- Partner with product, design and data to turn ambiguous opportunities into concrete, measurable improvements
- Raise the technical bar through code review, design conversations and mentoring more junior engineers
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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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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