Software Engineer, Policy Expert
Payments Team
2+ days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
Job no longer available
Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert's mission is to be the most successful insurance provider that people want to stay with for life. This will be achieved by creating proprietary technology that allows us to offer honest, transparent and easy to understand products.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in Java backend development, along with an understanding of its ecosystem
- Proficiency in writing high-quality unit tests, acceptance tests, and other forms of automated tests
- The ability to undertake detailed research to solve complex challenges
- Understanding of systems architecture and how to build scalable systems
- Excellent communication skills for effective teamwork and clear discussions with non-technical stakeholders
- A proactive approach in a dynamic, fast-evolving technical landscape
- Experience or willingness to adapt to continuous deployment and daily production deployments
Desirable
- Familiarity with our tech stack
- A solid grasp of Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, and Event-Driven Design and Test-Driven Development
- Experience building products end-to-end. From ideation, to design, to implementation and support
- Knowledge of TypeScript
- Knowledge of React
- Prior experience in the insurance or financial sector
What the job involves
- As a key member of the Payments team, you'll be diving into the core of payment processing systems and architecture. Here's what you'll focus on:
- Developing and refining our Java-based backend systems. You will spend most of your development time in Java apps with Groovy tests (written using Spock), dealing with intricate payment processing challenges
- Engaging in light front-end development with TypeScript and React for our microfrontends and backend Lambda services, accounting for the remaining of your development time
- Working within our comprehensive tech stack, which includes:
- Containerised applications with Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
- Serverless applications using API Gateway and Lambdas
- Event-driven architecture using SNS/SQS
- Storage with Postgres, DynamoDB and S3
- Orchestration with CloudFormation and GitHub Actions
- Collaborating closely with team members to ensure efficient, bug-free and frequent production releases
- Applying practices such as Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, and Event-Driven Design and Test-Driven Development to maintain high standards of code quality and system reliability
- Solving complex payment-related problems through meticulous research and innovative solution development
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1 million home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Having been built on a disruptive and ground-breaking platform, this established company is well positioned to continue building a customer base within the UK whilst keeping up with consumer trends.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
46% female employees
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"My colleagues have high attention to detail and explain their decisions and viewpoints very well. It's inspiring to work with teammates with high..."
Company benefits
- 🤒 Private medical cover with Vitality
- 🚅 Travel season ticket loan
- 🎉 Access to selected London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
- 🏖️ 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- 🏠 50/50 hybrid working - we trust you to do your best work whether it's in the office or at home
- 💻 One off work from home equipment fund
- 💅🏻 Each year you are with us you can get an extra wellness day!
- 🥳 Social events through the year - monthly themed in office events celebrating festive holidays!
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Adam Powell
(Co-founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
People progressing
Paul started with us as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined us back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis.
Diversity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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