Principal, Backend

🔥 12 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £60k - £65k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Shape backend engineering strategy, architecture and technical direction • Help engineers make better technical and architectural decisions • Develop sensible engineering principles and guardrails • Guide the evolution of the monolith and modern service-based platform • Coach and mentor engineers, developing their technical skills and judgement • Review significant designs and architectural decisions • Champion security, quality, testing, observability, resilience and performance • Identify technical risks and help teams navigate them • Evaluate technologies and patterns based on their value to SchemeServe • Balance long-term engineering quality with short-term business needs • Occasionally contribute directly to implementation through prototyping, investigation or unblocking teams • Partner with the CTO as a primary technical partner for backend engineering • Improve the engineering organisation's ability to build great software

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in modern backend engineering and strong commercial C#/.NET experience • Strong knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems and API design • Experience with mature legacy applications and modern service-oriented architectures • Strong cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure • Excellent understanding of databases, security, testing, maintainability and modern software delivery • Experience shaping engineering principles and practices across teams • Track record of improving engineers through mentoring, coaching and technical leadership • Ability to challenge experienced engineers constructively without becoming a gatekeeper • Strong opinions, loosely held; confidence to challenge and humility to change your mind • Excellent communication and ability to influence without relying on authority • Excellent technical judgement balancing quality, complexity, risk, cost and business value • Must already be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK • No visa sponsorship or relocation available • Nice-to-have: experience modernising large monolithic applications • Nice-to-have: commercial TypeScript backend experience • Nice-to-have: Cloudflare or edge technology experience • Nice-to-have: SaaS platforms at scale • Nice-to-have: financial services, insurance or another regulated industry • Nice-to-have: observability, platform engineering or SRE experience • Nice-to-have: AI-assisted development and engineering productivity tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Twice-yearly company retreats • Flexible working • Dedicated professional development support • Paid charity days • Friendly, supportive and highly collaborative culture • Genuine influence over how engineering works across SchemeServe • Work directly with the CTO on engineering strategy and innovation • Monthly biscuit deliveries