Description
Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple; take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover, and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services. RVU’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.
Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.
Our platform teams enable our customer facing teams by providing tooling and solutions that help them to deliver change quickly, safely and securely - all whilst providing an excellent developer experience. We are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, scalable, and reliable solutions that enable our internal engineering teams to be high performers.
What you will be responsible for:
Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology
Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
Autonomy: Authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance & reliability
Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and all hands
Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment
As a key member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
* Objective setting ,feature ideation, development and measurement
* Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
* Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
* Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements
* Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
* Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
You will also be expected to:
* Mentor and coach engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation
* Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
* Manage your time effectively between team and org level contributions
* Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier
What we look for in you:
Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and in building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
Experience of building and designing Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches, including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
Deep knowledge and experience with building, deploying and operating containers at scale within the Kubernetes ecosystem, preferably with technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Service and Argo CD
Proficiency in the software development lifecycle, including testing, version control, branching strategies and deployments approaches
Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
Experience building and designing APIs or CLIs that solve internal problems or deliver self service solutions for engineers
Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily
What we offer
We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:
* Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
* Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
* Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
* 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
* Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
* A healthy learning and training budget
* Electric vehicles scheme
* Health insurance
* 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
This role is hybrid from our Cardiff office, twice a week.
At RVU we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know-how, technology and backing of a well-established company.
Our mission is to empower people to make confident decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, money.co.uk, Tempcover and Mojo Mortgages, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world class online experience for them.
Our culture
Our culture is driven by innovation, collaboration, and a relentless focus on creating real value for our customers. With an experimentation mindset, we challenge the status quo, push boundaries, and embrace continuous learning to stay ahead. Our diverse teams are made up of brilliant people who uplift each other and work together to tackle complex problems. We work with a balance of rigour and urgency so we can learn fast and adapt to change quickly. We are a company where growth knows no limits, and where every person is empowered to make an extraordinary impact. Check out our Life At RVU page to get a further glimpse into our culture.
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