Team – UK Application Engineering
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth, London or Stockport Office. Full time, hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
1. Enterprise system ownership
2. Technical & architectural leadership
3. Integrated cloud platforms
What this role is all about:
At Vitality, our Software Engineers power the technology behind our brilliant products and seamless customer experiences. You’ll build and maintain high‑quality software that supports a fully integrated, modern business, delivered with pace and precision.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll lead development across large or multiple teams, setting technical direction and raising engineering standards. You’ll bring deep expertise in your core specialism, strong capability in a second, and be developing a third. This role has real influence, guiding teams, shaping architectural decisions, and working with senior stakeholders and third‑party partners in line with Vitality’s standards and governance.
Key Actions
4. Lead the full software development lifecycle, delivering high‑quality, user‑focused solutions from build through to release and support
5. Solve complex, business‑critical technical problems, owning root cause analysis and driving effective, scalable solutions
6. Provide technical leadership and architectural expertise, influencing designs, patterns and enterprise‑level decisions
7. Take ownership of releases and the ongoing technical performance and stability of the systems you own
8. Champion engineering standards and best practice, ensuring solutions meet Vitality and industry expectations
9. Design and deliver integrated solutions across multiple systems and teams, with a strong focus on security, performance and reliability
10. Engage and influence senior stakeholders and third‑party partners to shape requirements and deliver successful outcomes
11. Coach, mentor and develop engineers, driving continuous improvement in skills, processes and engineering capability.
What do you need to thrive?
12. Strong hands‑on expertise designing, building, testing and deploying Java/JEE applications across the full development lifecycle
13. Practical experience with front‑end and supporting technologies, including CSS, HTML and/or JQuery
14. Solid database capability using PostgreSQL, with strong proficiency in SQL
15. Experience working with AWS technologies such as S3, Redis caching and similar cloud services
16. Proven understanding of authentication and security methods, including certificates, LDAP or equivalent approaches
17. Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as AMQP or Kafka
18. Exposure to modern DevOps tooling and practices, including Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker or equivalent
19. Demonstrable experience integrating disparate systems and technologies using Java, underpinned by strong object‑oriented design and SOLID principles
So, what’s in it for you?
20. Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
21. A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
22. Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
23. Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
24. Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
25. Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
26. Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
27. Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
28. Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
29. Give you the space to try, fail and learn
30. Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
31. Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
32. Be there for you when you need us
33. Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.