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Engineering Lead

LondonEngineeringPermanent Development

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Here’s what you’ll be doing:
You will be working as part of the Engineering team here  at Simply Business, which will be paramount towards our customer journey as well as working on new initiative programmes. This role is based in the Perform Team, and you'll be reporting into Nicola (Engineering Manager) leading and mentoring a team of 8.
Our Tech Stack includes: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, MongoDB, Spark, AWS, Docker, Kafka, Terraform, JavaScript, SCSS, React, and Webpack.

As one of our Engineering Lead, you’ll:

  • Be hands on in developing our products using best practices, appropriate tools, and technologies
  • lead a small project team of engineers 
  • work with small cross functional collaborative teams to drive out requirements, highlight risks and prioritise stories 
  • work with team members to identify areas for learning and helping them grow in these areas via project work, external learning, or additional mentoring
  • champion Agile methodologies while creating amazingly useful systems in a collaborative way for our customers
  • highlight areas for continuous improvement and driving their prioritisation 
  • be proactive in suggesting new tools, technologies and ways of working

We’re looking for someone who is:

  • experienced of leading a small team of engineers
  • strong programming skills in an object-oriented programming (OOP) language such as Java, Python, Ruby, etc
  • the ability to challenge us – we love people who come in and challenge us and aren’t afraid to raise questions and help us improve
  • strong communication and collaborative skills and strong desire to liaise closely with business teams
  • an advocate of engineering best practices
  • experienced of working with Microservices 

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)
Ready to join us and help us elevate our internal engineering platforms? Apply today.

About Simply Business
We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 900,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords, and more than 1,000 other trades.

We’re as much a technology company as one that sells insurance. We build, we fail, we learn, we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment. 

Why not check out our advert on YouTube: Simply Business TV advert 2022: You name it. We insure it.

What are the benefits?
We support every team member to balance work and life effectively.
remote working - you can balance working remotely and connecting with colleagues in the office
mental health and wellbeing resources - access to counselling and technology to support your mental health
flexible parental leave - we pay six months full pay to the primary caregiver, and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver
paid sabbatical - two weeks off when you’ve been here five years and four weeks off when you’ve been here 10, 15 and 20 years
a dedicated learning platform - the platform lets you balance both work and life goals (including management and leadership programme)
life event leave - an extra day of leave every two years for whatever you want: moving house, welcoming a new pet, or your birthday

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly.
competitive salary - based upon your experience and the market we’re in from day one
annual bonus - the potential to earn a bonus based on business performance
pension - we match what you put into your pension up to five percent
health cash plan - we reimburse your everyday medical expenses
holiday entitlement - 25 days leave, plus bank holidays (you can also use your flexible benefits to get up to five days more!)
life assurance - four times your basic salary
flexible benefits scheme - an allocated allowance to use each year on things like private medical insurance, dental insurance, travel insurance, up to five days extra holiday, and gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.
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