Tech Principal Software Engineer, Policy Expert
£100-140k
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
£100-140k
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
- Java 8 or higher
- Clean code and understand principles of OO
- AWS
- Created or worked on APIs using HTTP
- Distributed and/or microservice architectures
- Message architectures like AMQP, JMS, SNS, SQS
- DevOps philosophy. You write it, you parent it in the wild
- Desire to be agile, practical, pragmatic, and lean
- Able to work in a team and as an individual contributor
- Strong people management experience with a proven ability to mentor and grow a highly productive, dynamic and technically proficient teams
What the job involves
- Defining medium/long term Architectural Design within own and wider teams
- Communicating with the stakeholders about changes, challenges and progress
- Evaluating technical feasibility in line with commercial needs of the business
- Influencing the wider business to buy into designs that will support business priorities
- Challenge the team to improve collectively through Personal & Team Development
- Manage team on day to day basis – including 1-2-1's, appraisals, training
- Ownership of team recruitment
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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