Senior Software Engineer

Pikl is on a mission to enable the growth of digital marketplaces, starting with vacation rentals. We design and deliver insurance-enabled solutions that help platforms, property managers and owners unlock new revenue and deliver better customer experiences.

Founded in 2016, we began by protecting individual hosts and homeowners with specialist holiday-let cover. That experience now powers our insurance-enabled products, which increase participation, lift conversion and drive revenue across the marketplace value chain: platforms, homeowners and guests.

With offices in Norwich and London, and plans for international expansion, we work with some of the most recognised brands in travel as well as major insurance aggregators.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and run the systems behind Pikl's insurance products and partner integrations.

Working collaboratively with Product and Platform colleagues, you'll work in a modern Type Script stack:
Next.js, React, Express, MySQL, and AWS. You'll own major services and features from data model to deployment, and you'll help shape how we build and scale the platform as it grows.

• Design and implement backend services and APIs in Express and Type Script. Build reliable, maintainable, and well-structured services that integrate cleanly with our broader platform.

• Contribute to and influence our Next.js and React applications. Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure a cohesive full-stack experience.

• Own significant technical components end to end. From data modelling in MySQL to deployment on AWS, you will be accountable for quality and long-term maintainability.

• Use AI tools as part of your everyday engineering. Apply AI tooling to design, implementation, testing, and debugging, while remaining accountable for the quality, security, and maintainability of what you ship.

• Help us build agentic workflows for the engineering team. Contribute ideas and implementations that automate repetitive work with sensible guardrails and human oversight.

• Make thoughtful technical decisions within our stack. Help define patterns for service structure, state management, data access, and testing.

• Review and improve system design. Provide guidance on performance, reliability, and scalability in a cloud-based environment.

• Strong hands-on experience with Type Script and backend development. Ideally with Express or a similar Node.js framework.

• Experience designing and building APIs and services that use relational databases. Comfort working with MySQL, schema design, and query performance.

• Familiarity with AWS. Experience working with services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, or similar is preferred.

• Experience working in a modern JavaScript/Type Script frontend environment. Familiarity with React or Next.js is a strong plus.

• Practical experience using AI coding tools in your day-to-day work. You can talk about where they help, where they fall short, and how you check their output.

• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions. You can work effectively with product and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience building or scaling production Next.js applications.

• Background in integrations with external platforms or carrier systems.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.

• Experience building agentic workflows or automations to improve engineering productivity.

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