Senior Software Engineer; React

Senior Software Engineer (React) –

is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. Since 2002 we empower customers 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.

Department: Engineering
Location: Cardiff

We are part of RVU, a group of online brands (Uswitch, Tempcover, ) that empower 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.

• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
• Manage your time effectively between team and organisation level contributions
• Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier
• Collaborate with cross‑functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality
• Lead technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, maintaining autonomy in delivery
• Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance & reliability
• Share experience, knowledge and expertise in a continuous learning environment, and participate in technical catch-ups, working groups and All Hands

• Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines such as Marketing, Data Analytics and Product Owners
• Experience with high‑traffic consumer‑facing websites and React; bonus for Expo experience
• Good understanding of cloud technologies and their application to solve problems such as event/data ingestion and third‑party API integrations, and appreciation of A/B testing, monitoring and Dev Ops principles
• Broad knowledge of software development, familiarity with procedural & functional languages, preferably experience with Databricks, Python and SQL
• Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions for business and consumer challenges
• Committed to personal development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that offers full autonomy to release changes daily

At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user‑friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. We believe in embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to be open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid working model and a “Work from Home” budget
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
• Learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Health insurance
• Access to Calm and Peppy apps for physical and mental health
• Regular events – team socials and company‑wide events with external speakers

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

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