Lead Software Engineer / Solutions Architect – Remote
An experienced Lead Software Engineer with some experience of solutions architecture in a digital environment is required by a leading insurance organisation to work with their engineering team to provide technical leadership. You must have experience of working within a regulated Financial Services organisation within the UK, ideally within Insurance.
As a leader within the technical environment, you will be a driver of cloud-native approaches, modern design patterns, and continuous improvement, championing engineering excellence throughout the business. It is essential that you have a strong technical engineering background including MFEs and APIs
Primary responsibilities
* Technical leadership for the software engineering team
* Mentoring of engineers
* Technical risk management
* Strategy
* Promotion of clear communication and collaboration across teama
* Contribute to design and engineering quality
* Ensure all technical solutions follow architecture governance
* Work with stakeholders including Architecture, Information Security, Data Governance
Experience
* Senior Engineering role within web and mobile application development
* React and NestJS
* API Development
* Designing and operating micro frontend architectures
* CI/CD, automated testing
* Performance optimisation – caching, code splitting, real-user monitoring
* Web and mobile security best practices
* Docker/Kubernetes/Helm/Terraform
We are looking for a strategic thinker with strong leadership and mentoring skills who has a very strong technical background and can still roll up their sleeves when required (and enjoys it!)
Sound like your next gig? The opportunity to work with a motivated and talented team helping them to deliver first class software that optimises the customer experience. Get involved!