Software Engineer - Insurance

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with...

You will join the Insurance team, a small and mighty group of front-end and back-end engineers. We operate in small, fully autonomous teams with real ownership over products including Home Insurance, Boiler, and Home Emergency Cover. Our mission is to support over 110k live policies using the best tools available, centered around an event-driven architecture.

We deliver progress. What you'll do and how you will make an impact.

As a Software Engineer, you will play an essential role in maintaining and developing UW's insurance products through close collaboration with product managers and fellow engineers.

Your Responsibilities:

• Modernise technology used for managing task queues.
• Enhance agent scripts to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Perform migrations to transition third-party software to our internal infrastructure.
• Automate billing processes to ensure high accuracy.
• Improve customer communications management and ownership.
• Develop and deploy new features in microservices with full monitoring and alerting enabled.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, We are looking for a collaborative problem-solver who thrives in a team environment and can design robust, high-quality solutions. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software maintenance and microservices.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Golang proficiency.
• Event-sourced architecture experience.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Terraform.
• Ability to optimise scalable insurance products while ensuring system reliability.

Pulled from the full job description

• Employee discount
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Car scheme, * An industry benchmarked salary. We'll share it during your first conversation.
• Share Options and a Save as You Earn scheme.
• Flexible working - remote-first with access to hot desks across the UK and a central London hub.
• Work-from-anywhere policy for up to 2 weeks per year.
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker.
• Discount on our services and you get our coveted Cashback Card for free. You'll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox.
• A matched contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x your salary. You can also access free mortgage advice and a financial wellbeing tool.
• Family-friendly policies, designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Discounted private health insurance, access to an Employee Assistance line and a free Virtual GP. Our wellbeing app Unmind supports your mental health.
• Belonging groups that help UW shape an even more inclusive future.
• A commitment to helping you develop your career journey through learning, coaching and new experiences.

Hi! We're UW. We're on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place. One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!