Senior Software Engineer

Founded as a farmers' mutual in 1997, the company is now one of the larger mutual insurers in the UK. Founded in 1997, we now have 560 employees.

Job summary:

The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Our headquarters is in London, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Pakistan, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time.

Day to day:

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green

What you need:

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Preferred qualifications:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Perks and benefits:

• Co-working space stipend
• Annual salary review
• Home office setup budget
• 20 days paid time off
• Company laptop

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Severn Insurance Agency.