Senior Software Engineer (GoLang)
Senior Go engineer at Tempcover (part of RVU) helping modernise short-term car insurance systems in a hybrid role based in London. Day to day involves building and scaling insurance platforms with Go, AWS, Terraform and CI/CD, while mentoring junior engineers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, England
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong Golang knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB
- Comfortable in Azure and Azure DevOps environments
- Understanding of development methodologies and design patterns
- Cloudflare experience
- Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering (observability, performance optimisation, security best practices)
- Build automation for deployment, monitoring, scaling and CI/CD
- Mentor junior engineers on best practices, coding standards and troubleshooting
Nice to have
- Containerisation and IaC approach (Terraform, SST)
- C# ASP.NET, .NET Core
- Experience with React, Typescript, Astro and NodeJS
Full description
**Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office and 1 time per month to our Fleet officeTempcover
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, but we’re not finished there. We’re growing our team to help us continue in that mission. If you are extraordinary at what you do and want to be a part of a rapidly growing business at the cutting edge of the Insurtech industry, we would love to hear from you!
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.
About the role
Tempcover is currently undertaking an overhaul of its systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Senior Engineer who can bring experience to help shape this journey, working in a role with ownership, empowerment, and impact.
Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal.
- Effectively evolve, enhance, and modernise large-scale systems to enable rapid adaptability and continuous improvement
- Drive the adoption of technologies like Go
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our 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
- Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement
- Mentor more junior engineers, providing guidance on engineering best practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting.
The highest level of proficiency developing applications using most of the following:
- Strong Golang knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable in Azure and Azure devops environments
- Containerisation and IaC approach (Terraform, SST are definitely a plus)
- A good understanding of development methodologies and design patterns
- C# ASP.NET, .Net Core also a plus but not necessary
- Cloudflare
- Experience with React, Typescript, Astro and NodeJS are definitely a plus.
You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!