RVU Co UK

Principle Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Cardiff Description In 2002, we became the first insurance comparison site. Our purpose? To make the process of managing your insurance, utilities or personal finances as easy as possible. We're part of RVU. A group of online brands that also include Uswitch, Tempcover and money.co.uk. As a group, we use our shared knowledge to empower people, and help them make decisions confidently across a range of household services. is at the cutting edge of the FinTech industry, so we're always looking for extraordinary talent. If you love what you do, get in touch today! We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer who thrives on organisational influence and technical mentorship to tackle our most ambiguous, high-leverage problems that shape the future of our business. You'll operate with near-complete autonomy and accountability, delivering solutions that require mastery of large-scale, distributed systems. As a Principal Software Engineer at Confused, you will be the technical leader and strategic voice for an entire vertical or a significant cross-cutting area of our business. You will be responsible for defining the long-term technical vision, shaping architecture, and driving execution across multiple teams to achieve strategic, company-wide impact, ensuring our systems and processes are world-class, scalable, and aligned with Confused and RVU's business goals. Teams will look to you for guidance and you will serve as the escalation point for the most complex technical decisions. You will be mentoring and pairing with senior and staff engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning. What you'll be doing Strategic Technical Leadership & Expertise Define the vision: Own and articulate the long-term technical vision and architectural strategy. Drive strategic impact: Identify and execute high-leverage technical initiatives (impacting a vertical or the entire organisation) that directly translate into measurable business growth or significant operational efficiency gains. Architectural stewardship: Design, govern, and audit the most complex and critical systems, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and maintainable over a multi-year horizon. Technical evolution: Continuously evaluate new tools, technologies, and paradigms, making strategic recommendations to adopt or deprecate them to keep our engineering ecosystem best-in-class. Leadership & Influence Organisational influence: Influence and align engineering and product strategy across multiple teams and business units Mentorship & coaching: Act as a principal mentor and coach to all engineers, elevating the technical expertise and standards across the entire engineering organisation. Conflict resolution: Resolve the most high-stakes, cross-team technical and non-technical conflicts, building consensus among senior stakeholders. Communication: Communicate complex technical decisions and their strategic implications to leadership and non-technical audiences effectively. Delivery & Execution Autonomy & accountability: Operate with complete autonomy on high-impact objectives, holding yourself and adjacent teams accountable for long-term success. Best practice champion: Define, implement, and enforce best-in-class software practices, operational excellence, and quality standards (e.g., CI/CD, production readiness, testing). Risk management: Proactively identify and mitigate significant technical debt, security risks, and operational vulnerabilities that could pose a threat to the business's long-term health. What we're looking for Excellent understanding of Cloud technologies, and their application to solve problems such as Event/Data Ingestion and 3rd Party API Integrations. As well as a strong appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles. Deep technical knowledge across modern frameworks (Go, React, .Net, Python), capable of solving undefined, novel, or highly complex problems within a major domain area. Extensive experience designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems and can manage the infrastructure and scalability strategy across multiple teams. Define what "Production Ready" means, ensuring security, resilience, and operational excellence. You are a gifted communicator who can translate technical complexity into strategic business context, influencing senior leaders and peers effectively. Actively mentor and sponsor senior talent, elevating engineering capability and culture across large parts of the business. Proven ability to manage organisational change, driving large-scale programs from ambiguous conception through to successful, measurable strategic impact. Identify the most critical problems, develop the solution, and execute it without explicit direction. 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 to 30 days) + 2 days "My Time" per year Private medical cover, critical illness cover , dental plans and employee assistance programme Free gym access Employee discounts programme A healthy learning and training budget to support your development Electric vehicle and cycle to work scheme Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

Principal Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: London Description Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office. Location: Tower Bridge (once per month to Fleet). About Tempcover: 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. Tempcover is investing heavily in modernising our technology to power the next growth phase of our business. We are looking for a Principal Engineer who can bring a depth and breadth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of ownership, empowerment, impact and mentorship. Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for our organization. In this high-impact role, you will move beyond individual contribution to shape the future of our technology. You will unify multiple teams towards a technical strategy together with our long-term company vision. What you'll be doing: You will set the new standard for large-scale system architecture. You will lead by example, personally designing and delivering high quality code which builds systems that are resilient, scalable, and observable, ensuring they can handle our next phase of growth. You will lead the evolution of our platform and will act as the bridge between technical estate and business requirements, ensuring stakeholders understand the "why" behind technical decisions and tradeoffs, and helping engineers understand how we can get there. Teams will look to you for guidance and you will serve as the escalation point for the most complex technical decisions. You will be mentoring and pairing with senior and staff engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning. What we're looking for Experience of having worked on, and led, modernization initiatives, using techniques like the Strangler Fig The highest level of proficiency designing, developing, operating and improving highly observable applications using Golang and other modern languages Deep understanding of AWS and AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable or with tracked experience in Azure and Azure devops Knowledge of containerisation and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, SST) Experience with technologies like Cloudflare or similar A solid understanding of development methodologies and design patterns Proficiency with C# ASP.NET, .Net Core are a plus React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS are also a nice to have 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 Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected As a tech company who strives to get better every day, we use Metaview during the interview processes for note taking purposes. This records and transcribes interviews so the interviewer can fully focus on your conversation, rather than writing. This has no bearing on the assessment of you as a candidate and you can opt out at any time. Just let us know.

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Principal Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: London Description Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office. Location: Tower Bridge (once per month to Fleet). About Tempcover: 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. Tempcover is investing heavily in modernising our technology to power the next growth phase of our business. We are looking for a Principal Engineer who can bring a depth and breadth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of ownership, empowerment, impact and mentorship. Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for our organization. In this high-impact role, you will move beyond individual contribution to shape the future of our technology. You will unify multiple teams towards a technical strategy together with our long-term company vision. What you'll be doing: You will set the new standard for large-scale system architecture. You will lead by example, personally designing and delivering high quality code which builds systems that are resilient, scalable, and observable, ensuring they can handle our next phase of growth. You will lead the evolution of our platform and will act as the bridge between technical estate and business requirements, ensuring stakeholders understand the "why" behind technical decisions and tradeoffs, and helping engineers understand how we can get there. Teams will look to you for guidance and you will serve as the escalation point for the most complex technical decisions. You will be mentoring and pairing with senior and staff engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning. What we're looking for Experience of having worked on, and led, modernization initiatives, using techniques like the Strangler Fig The highest level of proficiency designing, developing, operating and improving highly observable applications using Golang and other modern languages Deep understanding of AWS and AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable or with tracked experience in Azure and Azure devops Knowledge of containerisation and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, SST) Experience with technologies like Cloudflare or similar A solid understanding of development methodologies and design patterns Proficiency with C# ASP.NET, .Net Core are a plus React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS are also a nice to have 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 Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected As a tech company who strives to get better every day, we use Metaview during the interview processes for note taking purposes. This records and transcribes interviews so the interviewer can fully focus on your conversation, rather than writing. This has no bearing on the assessment of you as a candidate and you can opt out at any time. Just let us know.

A leading Insurtech company in London is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape its technology journey. This high-impact role involves setting standards for system architecture, leading modernization initiatives, and mentoring engineers. Ideal candidates will have deep experience in Golang and AWS, along with a strong understanding of development methodologies. You'll enjoy a hybrid work environment, a comprehensive benefits package including bonuses and professional growth opportunities. Join us to play a key part in our mission to revolutionize car insurance.