Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer

Company

Tempcover is at the forefront of the fast‑growing world of short‑term insurance. Our mission is to make car insurance flexible, quick, and easy for drivers. We’ve sold millions of policies that have helped drivers get where they need to go and are continuing to grow our team to pursue this mission.

Staff Software Engineer

Hybrid: 2 days per week in‑office;

Location:

London Bridge (once a month to Fleet)

Tempcover is modernising its systems to power the next generation of technology. We are looking for a Staff Engineer who can bring deep experience to shape this journey, working with high ownership, empowerment, and impact.

• Effectively evolve, enhance, and modernise large‑scale systems to enable rapid adaptability and continuous improvement.
• Improve the performance, reliability and scalability of our .NET systems.
• Develop and drive automation for deployment, monitoring, and scaling of infrastructure. Build tools and processes to enable continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
• Make data‑guided decisions that impact core business metrics and processes.
• Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches, including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies like Golang.
• Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement.
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on engineering best practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting.

We are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user‑friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all customers. We believe in embracing differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open, inclusive teammates and broader community members.

The highest level of proficiency developing applications using most of the following:

• C# ASP.NET, .NET Core
• AWS products like Lambdas, Dynamo
  
  DB, etc.; comfortable with Azure and Azure Dev Ops.
• Containerisation and IaC approach (Terraform is a plus).
• A solid understanding of development methodologies and design patterns.
• Golang is a plus.

• Cloudflare, Fastly.
• React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS are nice to have.

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.

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance).
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in‑office days per week and up to 22 days per year to work from anywhere.
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%.
• A one‑off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help create a great home work environment.
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy.
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days with years of employment) + 2 days “My Time” per year.
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme.
• A healthy learning and training budget.
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes.
• Regular events – from team socials to company‑wide events with insightful external speakers, ensuring colleagues stay connected.