Company Description

Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

We are currently recruiting for Technical Leads to sit within one of our core value streams to focus on developing and implementing innovative digital technology. You will manage, lead and coach a team of technical experts who build software and customer experiences that continues to drive, shape and deliver our customer-centric, data driven and digital first strategy.

What you will do:

• Technical Lead for a squad, ensuring collaborative working with Product Owners, Developers, QA’s, Architects and the wider business.
• Lead, manage and coach a team of engineers. You will lead from the front with expert hands-on software development experience and ensure high technical standards are met throughout the team.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure the squad has a clear mission, understands the wider tech strategy, healthy backlog and working to Agile practices.
• Work with our Architects and Principal Engineers on new tech choices and architecture evolution.
• Always looking at ways to Improve engineering practices in the squad including code quality, testing and CI/CD.
• Be a senior part of esure’s engineering community. Strive to actively share technical expertise with the team and champion / drive tech change wider than your squad.

What we’d love you to bring:

• A passion for people and a deep love of technology! You will consider yourself a people motivator who has led a software development squad in an agile environment to deliver and achieve great things.
• A Java technical expert! Our Tech Lead roles are a good blend of people management and strategy and hands on development.
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and Docker (ideally with Kubernetes) as well as cloud platform experience, ideally AWS.
• Experience in design and development of distributed, scalable, and highly available systems with a customer centric approach.
• Any experience with CRM / enterprise applications would be highly advantageous.
• An advocate of different agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, continuous delivery.

Why choose us?

This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure…

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
• A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure’s success
• Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
• 28 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
• Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
• Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we’ll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
• Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it’s no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work’ one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
• More flexibility for you: we’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it’s part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
• Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
• A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. That’s why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
• Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.