Lead Software Engineer

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🕒 June 2

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RVU

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501 - 1000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

eCommerce • Finance • Fintech

RVU is a company that empowers consumers in the UK to make informed financial decisions by providing a comparison platform for various services such as insurance, broadband, mobile, and energy. Through its brands like Uswitch and Confused. com, RVU enables customers to find the best deals based not only on financial savings but also on customer service and environmental considerations. The company operates within the home services and financial services sectors, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive better outcomes in everyday financial transactions.

📋 Description

• Joining our team as a Lead (or Staff) Software Engineer, you will be working closely with business leads, commercial managers, ops executives, product managers, data analysts, designers and fellow engineers to solve business problems with software. • This is a Lead/Staff level role with a bias towards technical expertise over management. • As a product team a lot of our time is spent on the front end, but you'll be contributing across the full stack from infrastructure, databases, pipelines, servers, CDNs, to web UIs and monitoring and analysing performance. This includes building responsive accessible React components aligned with our design system, working with APIs, using real-time metrics and alerting, interacting with databases, and keeping our applications secure. You will help to identify opportunities for process improvements, conduct code reviews, and ensure solutions are properly tested with a focus on best practices and quality assurance. • We’re leaning-in to the current AI revolution, having incorporated AI into several of our workflows, and we’re actively working on a number of projects with AI at the core. So you’ll also be working closely with AI not just as a development tool, but as a business enabler. This includes finding new and better ways to leverage AI to generate lasting value, and evangelising AI adoption across the business. • Most importantly, you will be supporting and improving the engineering team’s delivery & technical expertise in a continuous learning environment. You'll contribute to defining and maintaining best practices to ensure our software remains robust, scalable and maintainable, using your technical skills to help shape the future of Financial Services within RVU, inspiring and guiding the team along the way.

🎯 Requirements

• We're looking for a technical expert who will be a multiplier for the team: bringing your own experience and knowledge to enrich the skills and foster the growth of our high performing engineering team. • This is a full stack role, so you'll be just as comfortable building cloud-native scalable applications as you are at styling responsive React components. But as a staff engineer you will go beyond just delivering features. You will be empowering the whole team to create robust well-tested software that works everywhere, ensuring attention to detail, but knowing when to pull them back to avoid getting stuck down valueless rabbit holes. • You will have experience ranging from building MVPs through to large scale production systems, in each case knowing where to strike the balance between rigour and urgency, comfortable making pragmatic decisions that benefit the business. You will identify friction points and potential improvements and be able to put a business value on them so the team can focus their efforts appropriately to maximise return to the organisation. • In addition, it’s important that you understand the benefits that AI can bring to a business like ours, so we’re also looking for experience developing AI enabled applications and workflows. This includes knowledge around platforms and frameworks (e.g. N8N, Mastra), context engineering, using vector stores, RAG, fine-tuning and evaluation. • You will have a growth mindset, always keen to learn and explore, and you like to dig deep to understand how things work. You will be able to debug large and complex systems, not just fixing the problems, but building a fundamental understanding of how the system works to the point where improvements become obvious. • You will keep abreast of industry developments: assessing and introducing new libraries, new technologies, new tools and new approaches, in particular leveraging advances in AI technology to the benefit of the team and the business.

🏖️ Benefits

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance) • A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere” • Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5% • A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home • Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life • 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year • Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme • A healthy learning and training budget • Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes • Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week • Free breakfast in the office daily • You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows) • Free 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.