As a Lead Software Engineer, you will work as part of a highly-skilled and close-knit development team following Scrum methodologies to develop market-leading insurance pricing solutions.
This is a varied and challenging opportunity where you will play a key role creating new product features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the product continues to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.
The Role:
1. Working with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog
2. Designing and documenting software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements
3. Implementing and refactoring product code (C#), following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance
4. Implementing unit tests, developing test frameworks and associated automated test cases
5. Reviewing and debugging code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt
6. Working closely with test engineers to guarantee suitable test coverage, identifying and executing manual tests if necessary
7. Participating in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices
8. Mentoring junior members of the team and taking a lead role for some of the above activities