Senior Software Engineer

6 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom CDL Software Full time
We are seeking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to enhance our UX & Design Squad. This role is critical to our ongoing projects and future initiatives, particularly in the areas of conversational AI and front-end development.

Your Mission Your mission is to drive the development of our conversational AI and front-end projects, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality, usability, and accessibility.   You will have experience in developing software that is reliable, cost optimised, performant, supportability, secure and sustainable. 

About CDL
CDL is one of the UK's leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.   We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.

In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients
Key Responsibilities As a Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development of cutting-edge web applications.
  • UI Kit Development: Develop and maintain UI Kits to ensure a consistent look and feel across our applications.
  • Conversational AI Interfaces: Create and enhance conversational AI interfaces for various projects, improving our AI capabilities and user interactions.
  • Design System Development: Contribute to the development and maintenance of comprehensive design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate design principles and best practices to drive the adoption of design systems throughout the organization.
  • Leading or significantly contributing to medium-to-large feature releases; sometimes multi-person projects that cross team boundaries.
  • Designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality, scalable serverless and performant web applications using frameworks like Next.js.
  • Ensuring code quality by writing clean, well-structured, and maintainable code with a focus on performance, security, and best practices.
  • Troubleshooting and debugging issues to provide technical support and guidance to the team.
  • Leveraging AWS services such as CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3 to build efficient, cost-effective, and scalable solutions.
  • Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define, design, and implement new features and enhancements.
  • Developing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services.
  • Staying up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to continuously improve our products and development processes.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
  • Conversational AI Development: Proven track record in developing Conversational AI interfaces that can be utilised across all of Software Engineering.
  • Shared Component Library: Experience in contributing to and building a shared component library for consistency, reusability, and efficiency.
  • Front-End Technologies: Expertise in modern front-end technologies, specifically JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Angular and Web Components to develop robust, scalable, and maintainable user interfaces.
  • Iterative Product Delivery: History of delivering products iteratively, aligning with agile development practices for continuous improvement and timely feature delivery.
  • Coaching and Mentoring: Strong mentoring and coaching abilities to support the professional growth of junior engineers and improve the overall engineering team.
  • Design Collaboration: Design experience to work closely with product designers, ensuring our products are functional, user-friendly, and aesthetically pleasing.
  • Accessibility Standards: Experience in building applications that meet high accessibility standards, ensuring inclusivity and usability for all individuals.
  • Proven hands-on experience of software engineering practices. 
  • Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
  •  Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and related front-end technologies 
  •  Experience in developing and consuming RESTful APIs.
  •  Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
  •  Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  •  Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies.
  •  Agile working practices
  • Beneficial to have working development knowledge of AWS serverless
This role is critical to our ongoing and future projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. Join us and make a significant impact on our team's success

Benefits Salary

The salary for the role of Senior Software Engineer pays up to £65,000p.a. providing a fantastic opportunity for career progression through CDL's clearly defined career framework (https://progression.cdl.co.uk/).

Your growth and advancement within CDL are only limited by your own ambition and effort.

Benefits
  • Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office - SK4 2HD)
  • Truly flexible working.
  • 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
  • Top employer for 9th year running
  • Excellent training and development platform
  • Opportunities for career progression
  • Health and Wellbeing programme
  • Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
  • Life and health assurance
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme
  • Established Recognition Award System
  • Great Parental Benefits
  • Diversity and Inclusion network 
  • Pension scheme
  • Community projects and volunteer days 
  • Refer a friend bonus 
Campus Benefits:
  • On-site free parking
  • Open plan modern offices
  • Quiet Spaces are also available
  • Shuttle bus to and from the station
  • Subsidised restaurant
  • Games room and chill out zone
  • Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events
  • Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more
  • Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Shower and dry rooms
Diversity and inclusion
We're on a journey to keep innovating, that means welcoming new ideas and ways of thinking.
 
CDL recognises that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and  welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace  adjustments with all our applicants. The UKs biggest insurance retailers rely on CDLs trend setting solutions to drive success and growth. Our ambition and commitment has produced a track record of delivering exactly that. The result is a client base that includes some of the most profitable insurance operations in the UK.

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