Software Developer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Hawkwright employs 2,500 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Role overview:

Hawkwright is looking for a Software Developer to join a small, steady team. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Remote within the UK. The team meets in London once a quarter, travel covered. Few meetings, lots of written updates.

Main duties:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.

Preferred qualifications:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Contributions to open source projects.

Salary: £72,000 - £86,000 per year

What you get:

• Healthcare cash plan.
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.

No agencies please.

Start: Flexible.

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