Senior 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

• Design and build high-quality customer-facing experiences using modern web technologies, SSR frameworks and type-safe API integrations • Work across insurance flows, making improvements that affect conversion, reliability, performance and customer experience • Make pragmatic technical trade-offs around performance, flexibility, simplicity and delivery speed • Build and maintain backend services and integrations that support our insurance journeys • Work with infrastructure, CI/CD and observability to help the team ship safely and often • Partner with product, design and data to turn ambiguous opportunities into concrete, measurable improvements • Raise the technical bar through code review, design conversations and mentoring more junior engineers

🎯 Requirements

• The highest level of proficiency using most of the following: • - Frontend: TypeScript, Astro and/or Next.js, React, HTML, CSS • - Backend: Node.js, Go, RESTful APIs, OpenAPI • - Cloud: AWS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront • - Infrastructure as Code: SST, Terraform, CDK, Pulumi or similar • - Testing: integration and end-to-end testing, component story testing, and visual regression testing • - CI/CD: Automated testing and deployment pipelines • - Observability: Analytics platforms, error monitoring and performance tracking • - Cloudflare experience, including Workers, CDN or load balancing • - Builder.io or other visual/content tooling experience • You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us! • Beyond the stack, we’re looking for someone who: • - Has a track record of leading and shipping significant work in a senior engineering role • - Is comfortable working in ambiguity and can help shape work • - Has strong product instincts and can reason about trade-offs with product managers, designers and data colleagues

🏖️ 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.