Senior Software Engineer Partner

We deliver progress. What youll do and how you will make an impact.

Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities (Based on our Engineering Career Progression Framework):

• Impact: Be integral in defining team goals ensuring proposed work aligns with our objectives and driving prioritisation to best achieve them.
• Technical Mastery: Design and implement complex technical solutions that align with our strategy influencing guidelines and standards across the wider engineering group. Take responsibility for technical decisions within your team demonstrating expertise across multiple technologies.
• Planning & Delivery: Own large technical features from design to completion making well-informed trade-offs between progress and perfection. Provide technical direction to your squad proactively tackling debt and reducing complexity in our services and processes.
• Business & Domain Knowledge: Develop a high-level understanding of our multi-service business model leading discussions on how your squads work contributes to the broader company strategy
• Leadership & Culture: Teach our culture to others and mentor engineers via pairing and code reviews fostering collaboration where all voices are heard. Lead complex projects and discovery into unknowns working well under pressure to drive the team forward.

Possible Next Career Steps

• Staff Software Engineer
• Engineering Manager

Qualifications :

Required Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role youll need:

• Experience with Go is preferred but not essential.
• Proven fluency with Postgres Kafka and Kubernetes
• Solid experience building distributed systems including concurrency and event-driven architectures
• A strong understanding of system resilience observability uptime SLAs and progressive degradation
• The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions from design through build deployment and ongoing support
• Experience working with CI/CD tooling Terraform and modern cloud workflows
• Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
• Strong communication collaboration and problem-solving skills
• The ability to thrive in an agile iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
• Comfort working in autonomous product-focused teams
• Hands-on experience with AI development tools; we value engineers who embrace AI in their day-to-day work and see AI-assisted software development as part of the future of engineering

Additional Information :

Whats in it for you

Join a high growth FTSE 250 business with an ambition to grow our customer base to over 1 million over the next 4 years. Help us achieve our ambitions whilst learning and having fun. Become part of a fantastic business culture where people really are at the heart of everything we do.

Weve got big ambitions so theres going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
• Flexible working: Were a remote-first business.
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks twice every tax year.
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure) with the option to trade up to five days each year.
• UW discounts: Save on our services and and youll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance dental insurance or gym membership.
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the Great Big Get Together and our Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards.

Not sure you meet all the requirements Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do.

We provide equal opportunities a diverse and inclusive work environment and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age disability gender marriage or civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity status race religion or belief or sexual orientation. Please dont be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.

Please note if you are successful and offered a role at UW you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time