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Software Engineer

2 months ago

Home England, UK, United Kingdom myGwork Full time

This inclusive employer is a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Who are we?

Howden is a collective - a group of talented and passionate people all around the world. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mind-set, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 15,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

Our people are our biggest asset as well as our largest shareholder group and are everything that makes us unique; our inclusive culture, the quality service we offer our clients, and our continued growth, all come from our people-first approach. There's no such thing as individual success. We all need to play our part, contributing our skills and experience to make a true difference. That's Howden.

Why work at Howden?

We have always been employee-owned and driven by entrepreneurial spirit. Right from the beginning, we've focused on employing talented individuals and empowering them to make a real difference to the company, whilst building successful and fulfilling careers at the same time. Simply put, we hire talented specialists and give them what they need to make a difference for clients. Always have, always will.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It's what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down disappointed head-hunters for years. Whatever your priorities - work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering - you'll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

ROLE PROFILE:

Software Engineer (Backend)

ROLE PURPOSE:

Vast Visibility Limited is a subsidiary Company of Howden Insurance Group (the Group) one of the largest insurance groups in the world an international. At Vast Visibility we specialize in technology which powers Insurance Price Comparison Websites, working with most of the major UK Price Comparison brands.

This is remote role with only occasional, fully-expensed, visits to the Liverpool head office and the Iasi, Romania development office.

The job holder will be primarily responsible for:

  • Delivering exceptional technical solutions of our API, data layer and partner integrations
  • Ensuring software fulfils requirements and is engineered to the expected standards
  • Working closely with front-end developers, product owners, and stakeholders to deliver robust and scalable solutions
  • Being a fantastic team player who both respects and is respected by their team and others

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Planning and Strategy:

  • Working with other developers, product owners and stakeholders to plan and develop new features and new products to deliver an excellent service to partners and users.
  • Translating user requirements into well engineered designs; supported by others as needed.

Technical:

API Development and Maintenance

  • Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs.
  • Ensure high performance, scalability, and security of the APIs.
  • Implement API versioning and documentation.

Data Layer and Database Management

  • Develop and optimize database schemas and indexes.
  • Manage data storage solutions and ensure data integrity.
  • Understand and apply database tuning and query optimization.
  • Ensuring response times and query performance is optimal and meets any performance requirements.
  • Document data solutions appropriately.

Integration with Partner APIs

  • Integrate with third-party APIs for data exchange.
  • Handle authentication and authorization for external API access.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve integration issues.

Code Quality and Best Practices

  • Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and efficient code using modern design patterns and clean-code principles.
  • Implement unit tests and ensure code coverage. Automate other testing as part of CI/CD.
  • Ensure code and infrastructure you're responsible for includes best practice security including OWASP top 10.
  • Participate in code reviews to improve code readability and quality; identify any flaws; and ensure coding standards.

Collaboration and Communication

  • Work closely with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration.
  • Communicate effectively with project managers and stakeholders.
  • Share technical guidance with peers and provide mentorship to junior developers.

Software Engineering

  • Keep up to date with latest technologies and apply them when appropriate.
  • Create comprehensive documentation when required.
  • Ensure data/input is properly validated and handled.
  • Meet data and security compliance regulations as part of application design and implementation.
  • Identifying improvements to all aspects of software: code, security, automation, pipelines, performance;

Policy, Process and Procedures:

  • Keep informed of all legal and regulatory developments relevant to the Company or Group.
  • Interprets instructions and issues arising, and then implements actions according to policies and procedures.

Environment, Customer Focus and Relationships:

  • Achieve targets, develop the business and deliver an excellent and comprehensive service.
  • Respond to clients requirements as appropriate.
  • Shares information that could be beneficial to the Company or Group

People Management/Personal Development:

The job holder has no direct reports although may mentor or coach other staff.

  • Actively undertakes personal development to ensure up to date knowledge and understanding of best practice
  • Remains aware of external, industry, legal and regulatory developments (where this is relevant to the job role)to ensure practice and outputs are of a sufficiently high standard
  • Keeps informed of all legal and regulatory developments relevant to the Company or Group

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

  • At least four years' experience in a similar backend development role
  • Extensive experience with C# and .NET core.
  • Strong understanding and practical experience of RESTful API design and development.
  • Proficient in SQL and database management (e.g., MySQL, SQL Server, No SQL).
  • Proficient writing unit tests, ideally with xUnit
  • Experience with API integration and third-party services.
  • Proficient with Git including branch, merge, rebase, cherry-pick
  • Experience with cloud platforms. Ideally AWS including Kubernetes, Aurora, Lambdas, Secrets Manager, S3.
  • Knowledge and practical experience with scripting languages and CI/CD pipelines.

SKILLS/BEHAVIOURS

  • Ability to design and implement efficient, scalable, and maintainable backend solutions.
  • Able to refactor and improve code for performance and efficiency without sacrificing readability and maintainability.
  • Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and best practices for securing applications and data.
  • Able to work in an agile environment, we use scrum.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on quality.
  • Proactive and able to work independently.
  • Self-motivated and service oriented
  • Able to react positively to change
  • Good attention to detail with ability to produce accurate solutions
  • Able to work effectively in a team
  • Able to work to deadlines. Will be flexible when required
  • Able to build key business relationships with stakeholders

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Or equivalent proven commercial experience
  • Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS or Microsoft certified developer) are a plus.

Who we're looking for

At Howden we value diversity - there is no one Howden ‘personality type'. Instead, we're looking for individuals who share the same values as us:

  • Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

  • We support each other, in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

  • We are determined to make a positive difference, at work and beyond

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define.

Our business succeeds by allowing our people to make a mark in the areas they care about most: personal development, volunteering, and fundraising for charity, or creating new insurance products that address society's greatest challenges.

And we know that separate home and work lives don't really exist. If you're happy and healthy at home, you're more likely to be happy and fulfilled at work - and vice versa. That's why we do our best to support our people in every aspect of their lives.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Howden, we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness, and respect - regardless of age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or family circumstances.

Our sustainability promise

We're on a life-long journey to become an ever-more sustainable group. It's a commitment to taking care of our people and the world we live in, to doing good business, and to making a positive impact wherever we can. Our governance processes, company policies, and review systems are all geared towards our goal of making a positive impact in the world. You can read more about our sustainability work here.

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