Lead Full Stack Engineer in Royal Tunbridge Wells

It’s an exciting time to join the Technology team at AXA Health, with significant investment planned to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers, streamline and automate our business processes, whilst ensuring the continued stability and performance of our legacy platforms. We’re looking for an experienced Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our Engineering team, supporting the delivery of our digital roadmap, developing our people and assisting engineering strategy to drive improvements across all teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product‑led operating model, where our teams are value stream aligned with all the different resource types needed to get from idea to done with minimal hand‑offs. We’re focused on building out our Single Digital Platform, including several React frontend web portals, a .NET API estate and use of Azure services connected to our Salesforce platform.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You’ll work at least two days a week (40 %) away from home, moving to three days a week (60 %) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. Available local office locations are Leeds, Middlesborough, Bristol, Tunbridge Wells and Bournemouth. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading an agile engineering team, inspiring excellence, being hands‑on to set best practices and ensure correct designs and implementation, taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per our product roadmap.
• Driving the design, development and ongoing support of integrations surrounding our strategic customer platform, focusing mainly on the frontend technology stack but with the ability to move into the backend.
• Acting as a line manager and mentor for members of our development team.
• Promoting continuous improvement both within specific technology areas and across the IT department.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience leading a high performing engineering team.
• Expert in building and delivering high quality, well‑tested integration solutions in front end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript and React.
• Ability to deliver complex solutions to time and budget.
• Hands‑on experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, Azure DevOps and Azure platform preferred.
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design.
• Experience in Microsoft C# .NET, such as APIs, serverless functions and messaging workflows, ideally on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Understanding or experience integrating with Salesforce is desirable.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience.
• Annual company & performance‑based bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12 % employer contributions).
• Life Assurance (up to 10 × annual salary).
• Private medical cover.
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave.
• Wellbeing services & resources.
• AXA employee discounts.

To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button; you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long‑term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge.

For our support, please send an email to lauren.standen@axa‑insurance.co.uk.

At AXA Health, we’re passionate about helping our members to put their health first, whether that’s individuals and families, small businesses, or huge corporates. From fast access to diagnosis and treatment, to guidance and tools that can help them manage their health every day, not just when there’s a problem, our members can be confident we’ll guide them, every step of the way.