Software Engineer

Salary: Between £38,000-£57,000 + annual bonus & benefits.

Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Reigate, Southampton (Whiteley) or Newcastle.

Office Attendance: Hybrid; travel to Southampton office at least 2 days per week.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

The role involves designing, building, testing, supporting, and delivering our claims applications, deployed on the IBM i platform. There’ll also be opportunity to train in low‑code on the OutSystems platform. You’ll act as a subject matter expert within Claims Engineering, allowing you to showcase and further develop your own expertise. We encourage engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve our teams and the wider engineering community, creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement. You’ll have the opportunity to set the direction with the Senior and Lead Engineers and drive through service improvements, features, and changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working closely with our internal stakeholders and third‑party suppliers.
• Analysing systems to re‑engineer, update or add new features.
• Understanding business requirements, documenting when required, including creating user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Designing system changes according to modular software design principles.
• Writing high‑quality code and unit tests, according to defined standards.
• Completing work according to agreed commitments.
• Reviewing work produced by other members of the team.
• Analysing and identifying the root causes of problems and defects and designing suitable fixes.
• Producing documentation describing new and existing systems.

You’ll have (min exp):

• At least 5 years of recent experience showing the ability to analyse, design, and develop systems on the IBM i using:

• RPGIV ILE free & fixed format.
• Embedded SQL.
• CL.
• DB2 (DDS and SQL DDL).
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

And if you have any of these, even better:

• Insurance or other financial services background.
• Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts.
• RPG Smart Pages (RPGSp).
• Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints.
• Writing Swagger/YAML specifications.
• Programming with 2E (CA/Advantage/Synon).
• Using PTC Implementer (formerly MKS Implementer).
• Developing interfaces with JDE.
• Developing EDI interfaces (ideally ABC).
• OutSystems low‑code.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year. Plus Critical Illness cover.
• Performance‑related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Access to Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Benefit from our family‑oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8‑week paid paternity leave.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome:

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information:

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part‑time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews commencing Feb 2026.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there’s no better feeling. Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we’re helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

Our story:

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice – because we know little wins can make a big difference. We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them. We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week. Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone’s welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply:

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch‑ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!