Lead Backend Engineer

🕒 February 18

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Zego

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

💰 $150M Series C on 2021-03

Insurance • Transport

Zego is a company that provides flexible motor insurance solutions for various types of drivers and riders, including private hire taxi drivers, delivery drivers, and courier users. Zego's insurance products cover vehicles such as cars, scooters, motorbikes, and vans, and are designed to accommodate both personal and business use. Using technology such as the Sense telematics app, Zego offers personalized and potentially cheaper insurance premiums for safe drivers. The company collaborates with major delivery and ride-sharing platforms like Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Amazon Flex to offer tailored insurance options for their drivers. Zego emphasizes customer satisfaction, providing easy-to-use services via their app, and is a trusted provider for thousands of UK and European drivers.

📋 Description

• leading multiple engineers working in the same team or workstream and guiding their work to deliver user value and go after business opportunities • design, build and own Python microservices that power our insurance platform-secure, observable, and built for scale • drive architectural discussions and decisions across multiple teams, shaping the future of our backend systems • champion engineering excellence: testability, reliability, scalability, and clean code • collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers and data analysts to deliver user and business value fast • lead and coordinate the delivery of large, complex technical initiatives with clarity and impact • actively coach and mentor engineers- sharing context, feedback and support to raise the bar • identify problems, investigate root causes, and implement pragmatic solutions with autonomy • continuously improve how we work as a team: from CI/CD pipelines to incident response and everything in between • stay curious about how AI can enhance our work, adopting tools and workflows that unlock better productivity and insight

🎯 Requirements

• strong backend engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native microservices (Python preferred, but open to strong experience in other languages) • deep knowledge of programming fundamentals- data structures, algorithms, system design • built systems at scale and understand distributed architectures, performance tuning and observability • lead by example: through mentoring, clear communication, and a collaborative mindset • tenacious and resourceful- know how to find a way forward, even through ambiguity or tough technical challenges • calm, pragmatic mindset and consistently uncover solutions that balance speed, simplicity, and scalability • strive for simplicity- build systems that are easy to understand, test, and maintain- avoiding unnecessary complexity • proactive by nature- step in when something isn’t working or could be improved, raise concerns early, engage the right people, and help the team align on a path forward • comfortable engaging stakeholders beyond engineering and explaining technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders • excited by the opportunity to shape a product that impacts thousands of drivers daily • actively curious about how AI can enhance your work - keen to experiment, learn quickly, and apply tools that improve productivity

🏖️ Benefits

• market-competitive salary • private medical insurance • company share options • generous holiday allowance • annual flexible hybrid working contribution • wellbeing benefits