Principal Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Bournemouth - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Team UK Application Engineering
Working Pattern - Hybrid 2days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth London or Stockport time 37.5 hours per week.
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Enterprise system ownership
- Technical & architectural leadership
- Integrated cloud platforms
What this role is all about:
As a Principal Software Engineer youll lead development across large or multiple teams setting technical direction and raising engineering standards. Youll bring deep expertise in your core specialism strong capability in a second and be developing a third. This role has real influence guiding teams shaping architectural decisions and working with senior stakeholders and thirdparty partners in line with Vitalitys standards and governance.
Key Actions
- Lead the full software development lifecycle delivering highquality userfocused solutions from build through to release and support
- Solve complex businesscritical technical problems owning root cause analysis and driving effective scalable solutions
- Provide technical leadership and architectural expertise influencing designs patterns and enterpriselevel decisions
- Take ownership of releases and the ongoing technical performance and stability of the systems you own
- Champion engineering standards and best practice ensuring solutions meet Vitality and industry expectations
- Design and deliver integrated solutions across multiple systems and teams with a strong focus on security performance and reliability
- Engage and influence senior stakeholders and thirdparty partners to shape requirements and deliver successful outcomes
- Coach mentor and develop engineers driving continuous improvement in skills processes and engineering capability.
What do you need to thrive
- Strong handson expertise designing building testing and deploying Java/JEE applications across the full development lifecycle
- Practical experience with frontend and supporting technologies including CSS HTML and/or JQuery
- Solid database capability using PostgreSQL with strong proficiency in SQL
- Experience working with AWS technologies such as S3 Redis caching and similar cloud services
- Proven understanding of authentication and security methods including certificates LDAP or equivalent approaches
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as AMQP or Kafka
- Exposure to modern DevOps tooling and practices including Jenkins Kubernetes Docker or equivalent
- Demonstrable experience integrating disparate systems and technologies using Java underpinned by strong objectoriented design and SOLID principles
- Bonus Schemes A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12% We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer please visit our careers page.Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
- Help you to be the healthiest youve ever been
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
- Give you flexibility on how where and when you work
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
- Give you the space to try fail and learn
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
- Be there for you when you need us
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong and are supported to be happy and healthy.
About You
About Us
Weve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives they benefit our business benefits and society benefits. Were successful because we attract develop and retain the best people and because we care.
Plus you get to join our 1.7 million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if were the right fit for you We cant wait.
At Vitality were committed to diversity and inclusion because its good for our employees for our business and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds experiences and perspectives.
Vitalitys approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested please submit your application as soon as possible.
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