Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our London office

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 InsureTech 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.

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 Platform Engineer who can bring a depth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of 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. The platform engineering team enables our engineers to quickly build and run safe, secure and cost effective systems in our public cloud.

What you'll be doing

• As a Senior Platform Engineer you'll be working as part of an agile team that provides services and tools to our internal engineering teams
• Suggest and drive change across the engineering team and both challenge and improve existing practices and systems
• You'll be introducing new technologies and approaches, and play a key role in the technical direction that platform engineering at Tempcover should take, while providing support and maintenance of existing platforms
• Helping drive and shape projects to rebuild our cloud infrastructure, moving from Azure to AWS
• Mentor and coach other engineers; helping them grow whilst fostering a strong engineering culture

What we're looking for

Ideally your technical background will include:

• Strong and proven experience with AWS, its products and its Well Architected frameworks
• Automation and infrastructure management using an IaC approach
• Experience in API Gateways, DNS and load-balancing for a micro service driven architecture (preferably using CloudFlare)
• Experience in developed or architected secure environments, pipelines and software in a high load consumer-facing websites which are also regulated
• Experience in CI/CD technologies (we are using Github Actions)
• Experience working in IaaS and PaaS platforms models
• Experience using scripting, and ideally programming with languages such as Golang
• SST, GCP and Tailscale are definitely a plus

We are looking for someone who can also demonstrate:

• Using data to drive decision making
• Demonstrable experience of taking the lead in solving business problems
• Industry experience in implementing platform engineering approaches, and offering services to internal customers
• Willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery
• Experience being part of a cross functional agile team, working together to solve problems and deliver outcomes

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!

Our commitment to you

We are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this, it's essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What we offer

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to "work from anywhere"
• Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 "work from home" budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days "my time" per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• You'll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.