Staff Software Engineer in City of London

Staff Software Engineer at Tempcover

Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office
Location: Tower Bridge (once per month to Fleet)

About Tempcover
Tempcover is at the forefront of the fast-growing world of short term insurance. Our mission is to make car insurance flexible, quick, and easy for drivers. We’ve sold millions of policies that have helped drivers get where they need to go, but we’re not finished there. We’re growing our team to help us continue in that mission. If you are extraordinary at what you do and want to be a part of a rapidly growing business at the cutting edge of the Insurtech industry, we would love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Effectively evolve, enhance, and modernize large-scale systems to enable rapid adaptability and continuous improvement.
• Improve the performance, reliability and scalability of our systems.
• Develop and drive automation for deployment, monitoring, and scaling of infrastructure. Build tools and processes to enable continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
• Make data guided decisions that impact core business metrics and processes.
• Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches, including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices.
• Drive the adoption of technologies like Go and Python.
• Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement.
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on engineering best practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Golang knowledge and experience.
• AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable in Azure and Azure DevOps.
• Containerisation and IaC approach (Terraform is a plus).
• A solid understanding of development methodologies and design patterns.
• Python and SST (desirable).
• C# ASP.NET, .Net Core (desirable).
• Cloudflare (desirable).
• React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS (desirable).

Our Commitment To You

At Tempcover, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What We Offer

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on Tempcover and personal performance).
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”.
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%.
• A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home.
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life.
• 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year.
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme.
• A healthy learning and training budget.
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes.
• Regular events – from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
• As a tech company who strives to get better every day, 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.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Insurance