Senior Frontend Engineer, Policy Expert
Pet
2-3 days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
Job no longer available
Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert's mission is to be the most successful insurance provider that people want to stay with for life. This will be achieved by creating proprietary technology that allows us to offer honest, transparent and easy to understand products.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong experience working on the Frontend of a technology product
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes, and you want to make data-informed decisions
- You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
- You’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
- You have experience building client applications using React and comfortable writing code in Typescript
- You think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing
- You practice Test-Driven Development and are proficient in writing high-quality unit tests, acceptance tests, contract tests and other forms of automated tests
- You can undertake detailed research to solve complex challenges
- You understand systems architecture and scalable systems
- You possess excellent communication skills for effective teamwork and clear discussions with non-technical stakeholders
- You're placing strong emphasis on collaboration and can easily jump between various teams if your task requires making external contributions
- You have a natural curiosity and diligent approach to solving problems
Desirable
- You are familiar with our tech stack
- You have a solid grasp of Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, Event-Driven Design
- You have experience building products end-to-end not necessarily greenfield, from ideation to implementation and support
- You have experience using Java
- You have prior experience in the insurance or financial sector
- You have hands-on experience in projects using AWS Cloud
What the job involves
- The Pet team at Policy Expert is fully responsible for the technology powering our new Pet insurance product
- We're on a mission to provide pet parents with peace of mind and great value
- We use a data-driven approach to refine our product and build innovative solutions that truly meet the needs of our customers
- We're always on the lookout for ways to evolve our tech stack for maintainability, scalability and efficiency
- We leverage domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and event sourcing help to achieve these goals
- We are product-led, working within a cross-functional team to deliver the right solutions
- We value collaboration, open communication, and a passion for continuous learning
- We believe in empowering our team members to take ownership and make a real impact
- This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers
- As a Frontend engineer, you’ll work in a team alongside product owner, marketers, designers, software engineers, data analysts, business analysts, delivery managers, quality engineers and more!
- Together you’ll build and support a particular part of Policy Expert. Our teams belong to our wider product led verticals (we use to describe self-governing business units)
- They are; Home, Pet, Motor, Shared Services, Platform, Pricing / Underwiring / Fraud and Data science. They’re all looking for additional Software Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need!
- We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
- React for client face
- NodeJS for serverless / middleware applications
- GraphQL / REST for client API’s
- Micro services / micro frontends our architecture
- Feature flags / canary releases for incremental delivery
- Java to write our application code
- Dynamo / Postgres / MySQL / Aurora / S3 for most persistent data storage
- SNS/SQS for our event-driven architecture
- Fargate and Docker to schedule and run our services
- AWS for most of our infrastructure
- CloudFormation for our infrastructure as code
- GitHub Actions for our CI/CD
Application process
- We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1 million home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Having been built on a disruptive and ground-breaking platform, this established company is well positioned to continue building a customer base within the UK whilst keeping up with consumer trends.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
46% female employees
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
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Company benefits
- 🤒 Private medical cover with Aviva
- 🚅 Travel season ticket loan
- 🎉 Access to selected London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
- 🏖️ 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- 🏠 50/50 hybrid working - we trust you to do your best work whether it's in the office or at home
- 💻 One off work from home equipment fund
- 💅🏻 Each year you are with us you can get an extra wellness day!
- 🥳 Social events through the year - monthly themed in office events celebrating festive holidays!
- 🦷 Private dental cover with Bupa
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
People progressing
Paul started with us as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined us back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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