Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid working - 2 days per week in Cardiff office required.

We're also open to hiring this role at Senior level for the right candidate.

is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple; take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover, and ) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services. RVU’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.

Platform Engineering @

Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.

Our platform teams enable our customer facing teams by providing tooling and solutions that help them to deliver change quickly, safely and securely - all whilst providing an excellent developer experience and operational excellence. We are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, scalable, and reliable solutions that enable our internal engineering teams to be high performers.

Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology

Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers

Autonomy: Authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working

Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security & reliability

Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and all hands

Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.

As a key member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:

• Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
• Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
• Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
• Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust Dev Ops practices
• Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
• Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation

As a Staff Platform Engineer at  you will be expected to:

• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
• Manage your time effectively between team and org level contributions
  
  Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier

• Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and in building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
• Experience of building and designing cost optimised Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
• Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches (SRE), including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
• Experience developing and rolling out Service Level Objectives across an organisation…