Lead Software Engineer

At RVU we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know-how, technology and backing of a well-established company.

Our mission is to empower people to make confident decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, Money.co.uk, and Tempcover, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world class online experience for them.

RVU / Uswitch’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.

Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech- driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.

We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.

Your responsibilities:

• Leadership: Assume a pivotal role in defining the path for an established & experienced product team, guiding their growth and the product’s direction.
• Collaboration: Work with a variety of cross-functional disciplines to capitalise on interesting opportunities.
• Autonomy: Full control and ownership over your team's technical domains from project conceptualisation, to design & delivery.
• Data Driven: Leverage real time metrics, data, and testing to continuously monitor and enhance your product’s performance, ensuring its health & robustness throughout. 
• Excellence: You will work with your team to produce high quality code, pioneering the future of RVU product development, employing state-of-the-art technologies - like React, Astro, Compute@Edge, GraphQL, and more - to construct robust, scalable platforms to build upon.
• Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture, fostering and sharing knowledge of scalable, cross-organisational systems.
• Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment. We want you to do what you’re great at, which will include writing high quality code to demonstrate the right way to build systems to those around you.

Requirements

• Meaningful experience in managing agile teams of engineers, and eager to continue in this leadership role
• Pragmatic in your approach to deliver innovative and effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges.
• Passionate - whether it’s about improving accessibility, enhancing performance or optimising user experience - your design to get great results should rub off on those around you
• Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily.
• Keen to engage in the wider engineering community, willing to influence, and contribute through open-source projects, working groups and conferences
• Possess a strong understanding of web applications and their associated stacks -You are a strong hands on engineer who is open-minded about programming languages with a to focus on your applications’ benefits to the end user.

Benefits

What we’ll give back to you:

We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Electric vehicles scheme
• In office gym
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• Health insurance
• Access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

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