Senior Platform Engineer, RVU
£75-85k
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
Job no longer available
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
£75-85k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working in agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
- Experience of building and designing cost optimised Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
- Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches (SRE), including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
- Experience implementing Service Level Objectives and using them to drive error budgets, risk management and alerting
- Knowledge and experience with operating containers at scale within the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Experience in building robust, fault tolerant systems and identifying areas for improvement all in the support of maintaining reliability standards
- Knowledge of incident and problem management practices
- Proficiency in the software development lifecycle, including testing, version control, branching strategies and deployments approaches using modern software technologies
- Ability to debug Production code to identify root causes of failure that lead to improvement
- Experience building and designing APIs or CLIs that solve internal problems or deliver self service solutions for engineers
- 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
What the job involves
- Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology
- Collaboration: Work with fellow engineers to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the platform alongside your peers
- Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
- Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security & 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 a member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
- Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
- Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
- Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
- Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
- Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
- Designing scalable and resilient systems
- Presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation
- As a Senior Platform Engineer at Confused.com you will be expected to:
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in the team
- Manage your time and communication effectively between team and organisation level contributions
- Take lead on delivery, guiding the team to successful outcomes
Application process
- 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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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
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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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