Senior Software Engineer
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: London
Description
Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office
Tempcover are 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!
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.
About the role
Tempcover are currently undertaking an overhaul of our systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can bring experience, judgement and curiosity to help shape this journey; working in a role with ownership, empowerment and impact.
Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal.
What you’ll be doing
- Design and build high-quality customer-facing experiences using modern web technologies, SSR frameworks and type-safe API integrations
- Work across insurance flows, making improvements that affect conversion, reliability, performance and customer experience
- Make pragmatic technical trade-offs around performance, flexibility, simplicity and delivery speed
- Build and maintain backend services and integrations that support our insurance journeys
- Work with infrastructure, CI/CD and observability to help the team ship safely and often
- Partner with product, design and data to turn ambiguous opportunities into concrete, measurable improvements
- Raise the technical bar through code review, design conversations and mentoring more junior engineers
What we’re looking for
The highest level of proficiency using most of the following:
- Frontend: TypeScript, Astro and/or Next.js, React, HTML, CSS
- Backend: Node.js, Go, RESTful APIs, OpenAPI
- Cloud: AWS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront
- Infrastructure as Code: SST, Terraform, CDK, Pulumi or similar
- Testing: integration and end-to-end testing, component story testing, and visual regression testing
- CI/CD: Automated testing and deployment pipelines
- Observability: Analytics platforms, error monitoring and performance tracking
- Cloudflare experience, including Workers, CDN or load balancing
- Builder.io or other visual/content tooling experience
You don’t need to tick off everything on this list – so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!
Beyond the stack, we’re looking for someone who:
- Has a track record of leading and shipping significant work in a senior engineering role
- Is comfortable working in ambiguity and can help shape work
- Has strong product instincts and can reason about trade-offs with product managers, designers and data colleagues
Our commitment to you
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
We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU 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
- Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
- Free breakfast in the office daily
- You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
- Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Regular events – from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
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