Backend Software Engineering Team Lead

🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £75k - £85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Verisk

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1971

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

💰 $500M Post-IPO Debt on 2023-03

Consulting • Construction • Logistics

Verisk is a company that specializes in providing advanced data analytics, technology, and scientific research to the global insurance industry. It delivers solutions across various insurance sectors such as Property & Casualty, Life and Annuities, Reinsurance, and Specialty Markets, helping clients to assess and price risks with speed and precision. Verisk's offerings include underwriting and rating support, claims management, compliance, catastrophe risk modeling, and insights into extreme event risks. Additionally, Verisk serves other industries such as construction, real estate, and transportation by offering data-driven insights and solutions for risk assessment and business optimization, while also contributing to sustainability and resilience initiatives through its research and analytics.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop backend engineers through one-to-ones, feedback, mentoring, and career development • Create an environment where engineers take ownership, raise concerns early, and continuously improve team operations • Collaborate with Product, Program Management, QA, Platform Engineering, and technical leadership to define priorities and delivery plans • Translate business objectives and product requirements into scalable backend architecture and practical engineering solutions • Balance security, maintainability, performance, scalability, operational reliability, and delivery needs • Break down complex initiatives into deliverable increments while managing dependencies, risks, and technical considerations • Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, debugging, prototyping, and resolving complex technical issues • Drive engineering quality through code reviews, testing, documentation, observability, and secure development practices • Support improvements in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment processes, and platform reliability • Manage backend services through maintenance, upgrades, incident resolution, and technical debt reduction • Review significant technical changes and help engineers provide constructive peer feedback • Communicate technical decisions, delivery progress, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• At least 4 years of commercial software engineering experience, including significant experience building and supporting backend services in production environments • Strong Python development experience • Proven experience building and maintaining applications using Django • Experience with Flask or FastAPI • Previous experience leading, mentoring, or managing software engineers • Track record of turning complex or ambiguous requirements into successful technical outcomes • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills • Experience designing scalable APIs and backend systems • Solid understanding of REST principles, API standards, and API documentation • Strong relational database and data modeling knowledge • Experience with authentication, authorization, single sign-on, and secure API design • Experience implementing software testing and quality practices • Experience diagnosing and resolving issues across applications, databases, infrastructure, networking, and production environments • Experience working with cloud-hosted systems, ideally AWS • Strong understanding of backend security risks and practical mitigation approaches • Excellent judgment, problem-solving ability, and decision-making skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive opportunity • Medical coverage • Life insurance • Pension plans • Paid time off in line with local labor laws • Wellness initiatives • Fitness programs • Team-building activities • Career development opportunities across Verisk's global business • Flexible remote work within the UK or hybrid office work in Bath or London