Software Engineer - Insurance

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!

We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money. Big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.

Got your attention? Read on...

We put people first. It’s all about you..

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.

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.

So why pick UW?

We’ve got big ambitions so there’s going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
• UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card.
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.

Apply here!

You’ve got this far... Hit apply - we can’t wait to hear from you! Worried you don’t hit all the criteria? We welcome applications from diverse and varied backgrounds so get your application in and let’s chat!

Martyna Zbyszewska will be your point of contact throughout the recruitment process.

Not sure you meet all the requirements? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact they often do.

We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.

Please note, if you are successful and offered a role at UW, you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks, could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.