Principal Backend Engineer

🕒 June 17

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SchemeServe

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2000

🛡️ Insurance

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

Insurance • SaaS • Fintech

SchemeServe is a fully-serviced insurance software solution, hosted in the cloud, designed for Managing General Agents (MGAs), brokers, and insurers. It offers a wide array of features including policy administration, client management, and real-time reporting, all supported by a dedicated customer service team. SchemeServe empowers users to build and manage their own insurance products quickly and efficiently, ensuring high levels of uptime and support.

📋 Description

• Partner with the CTO to define and evolve SchemeServe's backend engineering strategy • Establish and maintain backend engineering standards, principles and best practices • Drive consistency across multiple engineering teams in architecture, implementation patterns and operational practices • Champion secure software development practices and help embed security throughout the software development lifecycle • Define and improve code quality standards, review processes and engineering governance • Provide architectural guidance for new systems, services and platform initiatives • Help shape and guide the ongoing transformation of our .NET Framework monolith into a modern service-based, API-first platform • Provide technical leadership across both C# and TypeScript backend ecosystems • Act as a technical mentor and coach for backend engineers across the organisation • Review significant technical proposals, designs and architectural decisions • Drive improvements in observability, resilience, performance and operational excellence • Identify technical risks and help teams navigate them successfully • Help teams make pragmatic technology decisions, balancing innovation, risk and long-term maintainability • Evaluate emerging technologies and engineering practices, identifying opportunities that provide genuine business value • Foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and constructive technical challenge • Occasionally, contribute directly to implementation work when strategic initiatives or business priorities require it • Represent backend engineering interests in strategic technical discussions • Build strong relationships across Engineering, Product and Leadership teams

🎯 Requirements

• Commercial experience building and operating large-scale backend systems • Deep expertise in modern backend engineering practices • Strong experience with C#/.NET and TypeScript • Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems and API design • Experience working with both legacy applications and modern service-oriented architectures • Proven experience defining engineering standards across multiple teams or departments • Strong knowledge of secure software development practices and application security principles • Deep understanding of code quality, maintainability and software craftsmanship • Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and cloud-native architecture • Excellent understanding of modern databases and data modelling principles • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Proven ability to influence technical direction through expertise, collaboration and communication • Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across teams • Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing strategies and modern software delivery practices • Excellent Git knowledge and development workflow practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working • Professional Development • Paid days to do charity work • Friendly working environment • Fantastic company culture • Free biscuits through the post