Senior Cloud Engineer, Cuvva
£84-94k
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MongoDB
AWS
Docker
Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Terraform
Redshift
RDS
Golang
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
1-4 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Car insurance
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Car insurance
101-200 employees
FintechB2CCarsInsuranceCustomer service
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£84-94k
+ Share options
MongoDB
AWS
Docker
Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Terraform
Redshift
RDS
Golang
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
1-4 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
101-200 employees
FintechB2CCarsInsuranceCustomer service
Company mission
We are making cars multiplayer 🚙 We’re creating truly flexible products that meet people’s real needs. Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, enabling scalable and efficient infrastructure management
- Experience in CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices, ensuring smooth and automated delivery pipelines
- A leadership mentality, with the ability to create plans, define epics, and lead teams to successful execution of technical initiatives
- Proactive and transparent communication, with the ability to rally teams around common goals and keep everyone aligned
- An energetic, positive, and proactive attitude, with the ability to act quickly and drive change in a fast-paced environment
- (Nice to have) Coding experience with Go, enabling you to collaborate with developers and contribute to codebase improvements
- A mindset aligned with our AI-first strategy, where we are building AI-powered features to improve customer experiences and accelerate our product offerings
- A focus on data-driven decisions, constantly testing hypotheses and using data to inform the direction of your work. Gut feel is never enough; every solution is built on evidence
- A practical approach to engineering, applying the Pareto principle by focusing on delivering 80% of the value with 20% of the effort and ensuring you only polish solutions when it truly matters
- A testing-first mindset, prioritising stability and reliability. You understand that testing, shipping, and learning are the foundations of our approach to continuous improvement
What the job involves
- At Cuvva, Product Engineering is made up of cross-functional squads, each with full ownership over an area of the product or platform
- These teams bring together Backend, Fullstack, iOS, Android, Product Managers, Designers, and Data Engineers & Analysts to work autonomously, make decisions quickly, and build impactful, reliable, user-centred products
- We’ll be looking for you as our new Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Platform team to start off with
- Platform - Owners of the technical foundations that drive the business. The Platform team enables other teams within the business to move faster, reduce costs and succeed. Tackling some of the most complex challenges for the business, the Platform team maintains stability, whilst driving profit growth through automation
- Core - Dedicated to growing our market-leading short-term car insurance product, driving over £6 million in monthly sales. As a cross-functional team, we focus on enhancing the user experience by deeply understanding customer needs, introducing new products and features to solve their problems, whilst continually optimising all aspects of the funnel
- New Ventures - Operating as Cuvva’s internal incubator, New Ventures explores high-potental opportunities that could become significant growth drivers for our business. New Ventures is designed to look further ahead, balancing discovery and delivery while taking calculated risks on ideas that could transform our business
- At Cuvva, Engineers at Cuvva come from a variety of backgrounds and have different but complementary skill sets for ultimate collaboration. Within Engineering, you’re not required to have a degree, many of us are self-taught
- We’re not just here to write code – we’re here to redefine how insurance works. Our 2025 engineering strategy is built on five principles:
- AI-first: We’re investing in automation and building AI-powered features to serve customers better and faster
- Proactive mindset: We take initiative, spot problems early, and act fast
- Data-driven decisions: Hypotheses are tested. Gut feel isn’t good enough
- Pareto principle: Get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort – polish only when it matters
- Testing-first mindset: Stability matters. We test, we ship, we learn
- Our cloud infrastructure is built on AWS and leverages a range of fully managed services to reduce operational overhead. We heavily use Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and focus on automation to simplify and accelerate deployment processes. Our services are primarily written in Golang or Node JS and are containerised with Docker for ease of deployment and scalability
- Key services we use include EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, SQS, SNS, Elasticache, RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Redshift, DMS, EventBridge, and AWS Elasticsearch. We also leverage Redis for caching and have a growing use of PostgreSQL
- We’re committed to using serverless architecture wherever possible and encourage using managed services to reduce the burden of system maintenance. Our team continuously strives to stay ahead of the curve, incorporating the latest cloud technologies and practices to ensure the performance, reliability, and security of our infrastructure
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer at Cuvva, you will play a key role in scaling and optimising our cloud infrastructure to support the rapid growth of our products
- You’ll be the go-to expert for AWS, leading initiatives that enhance the performance, security, and reliability of our systems. Your hands-on expertise in AWS services and Infrastructure as Code will be critical in maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure, ensuring it remains scalable and cost-effective as we grow
- You’ll work closely with a collaborative team of engineers, taking a driving role in bringing forward key technical initiatives, planning sprints, and breaking down large tasks into actionable epics
- Your proactive communication and ability to bring people together will be essential as you coordinate and collaborate across multiple teams. You’ll be a hands-on leader, balancing strategic thinking with the need for rapid execution, while maintaining an energetic, positive attitude that drives results
- In this role, your focus will be on empowering other engineers through proactive coaching, clear guidance, efficient processes, and continuous improvements to our DevOps practices
- You’ll also take ownership of maintaining and evolving our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring we build, test, and deploy faster with confidence
- Your understanding of the 80/20 mentality will guide you to deliver the most impactful solutions with minimal effort, driving efficiency across the board
- Lead and maintain AWS infrastructure, managing services such as EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, and more
- Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to automate and scale the cloud infrastructure
- Take the lead in planning and coordinating technical initiatives, breaking down large tasks into achievable epics and sprint goals
- Collaborate across teams, ensuring smooth execution of cloud initiatives by gathering people together, aligning priorities, and keeping stakeholders informed
- Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in our infrastructure, ensuring our systems are always scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient
- Work hands-on with CI/CD tools to ensure smooth, fast, and reliable deployments, minimising downtime and risk
- Take ownership of monitoring and alerting, continuously improving observability within our cloud infrastructure
- Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing, mentoring engineers and ensuring best practices are followed
- Lead the charge on keeping our cloud infrastructure secure, ensuring compliance and implementing security best practices across the stack
Application process
- Initial chat with Engineering Manager (60m)
- Technical interview & live challenge with Squad peers (90m)
- CTO chat (30m)
- Founder & CEO Chat (20m)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Before companies like Cuvva, the most recent consumer-facing innovation in insurance was through aggregators such as Moneysupermarket. However, the experience of using these is not great. The industry is known for low levels of customer support, confusing policies and needing to create a new account every time you want a quote.
Brokers and comparison websites add another step to the process, and charge companies they work with ~£70 on each policy sold, which is passed on to the customer in the form of higher policy costs.
Cuvva's focus on customer service is unusual in insurance, but it's providing them a winning edge. They are trying to make insurance more about the experience than simply the price of the policy. It seems to be working so far, as they’ve got a lot of great customer reviews. The challenge will be scaling this support (it’s notoriously hard to scale great customer service when you’re growing fast).
For an industry where brand loyalty is currently near zero (because people go for the cheapest policies) there could be a big opportunity for a company that provides an end-to-end amazing experience and cuts out the middlemen.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2019
$20.2m
SERIES A
Jan 2017
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $23.6m
Company benefits
- Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
- A four day work week (Fridays off!)
- Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyones individual salary of course!)
- 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva 🌞 (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW)
- Quarterly team socials and company events
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
- Professional development budget
- Health, WFH and wellbeing budget 🧘♂️
- Enhanced parental leave and pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva. Giving you the space to talk to a coach or therapist about anything you like
- Hundreds of perks and discounts with Perkbox
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Freddy Macnamara
(CEO)Previously founded a renewable energy consultancy in Scotland.
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