Senior Software Engineer, RVU
Platform
£75-95k
2 days a week in office (Tower Bridge/London Bridge)
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
£75-95k
2 days a week in office (Tower Bridge/London Bridge)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for talented individuals who share our passion for making a positive impact on people's lives
- Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines, such as Designers, Analysts & Product Owners
- Good understanding of building and maintaining robust, performant APIs
- Experience with multi languages is a plus (experience with Go would be preffered) - but we believe in using the right tool for the job
- Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
- 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
- If you want to be part of a team that is transforming the way consumers navigate their household services, we would love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Every interaction with a customer is powered by data — and your work will ensure that data is trusted, accessible, and actioned in the smartest ways possible
- As the Customer Platform team, we sit at the heart of our organisation, helping internal teams to collect, analyse, and activate customer data — powering everything from CRM integrations to audience targeting in marketing campaigns
- We partner with engineers, analysts, product teams and the privacy office to make customer-centric work possible — providing foundational tooling like address lookup and consent capture, and offering more advanced capabilities like our internal event stream platform and a fully-managed DBT environment
- Our services help teams track behavioural signals, enrich customer profiles, and transform raw data into decision-ready insight — all while maintaining a strong focus on data protection
- We primarily write in Go, but also maintain services and tooling in Python and Clojure
- Engineering at Uswitch focuses on:
- Excellence: Work in an established & experienced product team branching into new feature development, supporting and improving the team’s delivery & technical expertise
- Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organization to make the best ideas a reality
- Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using methods that best align with your ways of working
- Data Driven: Utilize rich real-time logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve product performance & 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 & expertise in a continuous learning environment
- As part of a platform engineering team you will be working with many teams across the business as we support the various initiatives, this will involve:
- Feature ideation, development and measurement
- Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
- Developing data models for products, insights, customers, etc
- Maintaining internal tools and services for stakeholder teams to use
- Building efficient CI/CD pipelines
- Ensuring we are meeting our data, privacy and security requirements
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Articles
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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