Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help build, enhance, and scale our products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a central role in shaping the future of our product suite across the engineering teams at UnderwriteMe. You’ll lead technical initiatives, mentor others and help us build systems that are scalable, maintainable, and deliver value to our users.

What You Will Do

You’ll contribute directly to the development and continuous improvement of our products and platforms, focusing on building adaptable and resilient solutions that can evolve with the needs of our users and business. You’ll be actively involved in system design and architectural discussions, helping the team arrive at thoughtful, simple solutions to complex problems.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You’re a thoughtful and pragmatic engineer who sees software development as a means to solve meaningful problems, not just to write code. You care deeply about building systems that are simple, maintainable, and valuable to users. You’re naturally collaborative, working closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to shape solutions that balance technical soundness with real impact.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience applying modern software engineering practices in a collaborative team setting, including iterative development, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Java, Kotlin, or similar), ideally with experience in Spring Boot and cloud-native development.
• Practical experience designing and building cloud-based systems, with the ability to use cloud services to create scalable, resilient, and observable solutions.
• Proven ability to make sound technical decisions independently, while working closely with teammates to deliver solutions from idea to production.
• Experience improving or evolving existing systems, including working with legacy codebases and simplifying or automating manual workflows.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits
• 15% combined employee/employer contributions
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations