Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Cardiff office

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.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include:
Uswitch, Tempcover, , and Mojo Mortgages. We are at the cutting edge of the Fin Tech industry, so we’re always looking for extraordinary talent. If you love what you do, get in touch today!

We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for a passionate Lead Engineer to help build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences and data products to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.

We consider our engineers to follow the 'T-Shaped' archetype. We therefore are interested in speaking to engineers from a range of full-stack backgrounds. The tech experience we currently consider as desirable includes React, React Native, Expo, Golang, Python, .NET, AWS, and Kubernetes.

As a Lead Engineer you will be a hands‑on servant leader of a small team of engineers. You will help:

• Define team objectives with organisational objectives
• Builds a culture of continuous improvement and delivers on long‑term technical strategies
• Use your knowledge to drive innovation and team development
• Facilitates collaboration across teams.

• Leading the technical design and implementation of new features, writing clean, efficient, and well‑tested code
• Collaborating closely with UX/UI designers to translate design concepts into seamless and intuitive user interfaces
• Championing code quality and robust testing strategies across the team to ensure reliable and performant app releases
• Partnering with backend engineers to define and evolve APIs, ensuring seamless integration between the app and backend services
• Mentoring and guiding other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement within the team
• Data Driven utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance & reliability.

• Experience of high traffic consumer facing websites and working with React
  . We have also recently started using Expo
  , so any experience with that would be a bonus
• Good understanding of Cloud technologies
  , and their application to solve problems such as Event/Data Ingestion and 3rd Party API Integrations. As well as a strong appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring, and Dev Ops principles
• A breadth of knowledge about all aspects of software development and familiarity with procedural & functional languages, preferably having experience with Databricks, Python, and SQL
• Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
• Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
  , effectively prioritising tasks, and managing your time in a dynamic, small team environment
• Strong leadership with a desire to guide and influence technical direction.

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!

We are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this, it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus…