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| Remote (UK) | Monthly team meet-ups | Optional London co-working space |
We’re partnering with an innovative, well-established insurance technology company that’s transforming the auto insurance industry. By combining telematics, real-world driving behaviour and proprietary machine learning models, they’ve built a smarter underwriting platform that delivers lower costs, greater accuracy and industry-leading loss ratios.
As the business continues to grow, they’re looking for a talented Backend Engineer to help build the next generation of their platform.
The Opportunity
This is an opportunity to work on modern, cloud-native systems-not legacy applications.
You’ll play a key role in designing, building and maintaining the scalable APIs, backend services and distributed systems that power the company’s core insurance platform, mobile applications and machine learning pipelines.
You’ll join a collaborative engineering team that values clean code, thoughtful architecture and solving meaningful customer problems, while having genuine influence over the technical direction of the platform.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, build and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Develop APIs and services supporting the insurance platform, mobile applications and third-party integrations
- Contribute to system architecture and help shape the long-term engineering strategy
- Work closely with Product, Design and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality features
- Take ownership of the services you build, ensuring reliability, scalability and observability
- Participate in on-call support and continuously improve system performance
You’ll be working with a modern technology stack including:
- Node.js & TypeScript
- PostgreSQL, Datastore & Redis
- GraphQL
- React & React Native
- Event-driven architecture using Pub/Sub
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Terraform
- CircleCI
About You
We’re looking for an engineer who enjoys building reliable, scalable backend systems and takes pride in writing clean, maintainable code.
You’ll ideally have:
- Commercial experience developing backend applications with Node.js
- A solid understanding of software architecture and distributed systems
- Experience designing and building production-grade APIs
- Strong problem-solving skills and excellent computer science fundamentals
- The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within Agile environments
Nice to Have
Experience with any of the following would be advantageous, but is by no means essential:
- GraphQL
- Event-driven architectures
- Terraform
- DataDog
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Start-up or scale-up engineering environments
What’s on Offer?
- Salary of £50,000-£80,000 DOE
- Fully remote within the UK
- Monthly in-person engineering meet-ups
- Optional London co-working space if you enjoy office collaboration
- Modern tech stack with greenfield development
- High levels of ownership and technical autonomy
- The opportunity to help shape a rapidly growing engineering platform
If you’re passionate about backend engineering and want to build scalable software that makes a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Requirements
We’re looking for an engineer who enjoys building reliable, scalable backend systems and takes pride in writing clean, maintainable code.
You’ll ideally have:
- Commercial experience developing backend applications with Node.js
- A solid understanding of software architecture and distributed systems
- Experience designing and building production-grade APIs
- Strong problem-solving skills and excellent computer science fundamentals
- The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within Agile environments, Experience with any of the following would be advantageous, but is by no means essential:
- GraphQL
- Event-driven architectures
- Terraform
- DataDog
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Start-up or scale-up engineering environments
Benefits & conditions
- Salary of £50,000-£80,000 DOE
- Fully remote within the UK
- Monthly in-person engineering meet-ups
- Optional London co-working space if you enjoy office collaboration
- Modern tech stack with greenfield development
- High levels of ownership and technical autonomy
- The opportunity to help shape a rapidly growing engineering platform
If you’re passionate about backend engineering and want to build scalable software that makes a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. #J-18808-Ljbffr
About the company
We’re partnering with an innovative, well-established insurance technology company that’s transforming the auto insurance industry. By combining telematics, real-world driving behaviour and proprietary machine learning models, they’ve built a smarter underwriting platform that delivers lower costs, greater accuracy and industry-leading loss ratios.
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