Developer

Developer Worcester, England

Open GI Ltd.
Full Time Worcester, England 37833 - 46240 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Open GI is a leading software development company and a trusted partner to the general insurance industry. Based across the UK and Europe, our support and development services make us a truly diverse organization that offers a range of IT solutions to insurance brokers, insurers, and managing general agents.


It is our mission to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of Choice to the UK General Insurance market. Our people are placed at the heart of this and diversity, equality and inclusion are central to everything we do.


We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our people. No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape where the company will be in the future. We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.



Position:

Developing Open GI’s Digital products in a cross-functional software development squad

Your key responsibilities

  • Writing high-quality, testable code
  • Delivering features and improvements on the product backlog to production in small batches
  • Playing an active part in building a high-performance team culture
  • Supporting platforms and services in production, responding to change failures and fixing issues
  • Improving customer outcomes


Requirements:

Qualifications

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent in a computer-related subject (advantageous)

Experience

Essential

  • 3 years’ experience as a Java developer/software engineer
  • Building and running enterprise-scale web applications in production

Advantageous

  • Working in an agile environment
  • Developing REST APIs and SOAP web services
  • Working in the general insurance and/or financial services industries

Skills

Essential

  • Coding in Java
  • SQL database development
  • Secure coding practices
  • Effective communication
  • Debugging and problem diagnosis
  • Technical decision making
  • Estimation

Advantageous

  • API and Service Design
  • Front end web development
  • CI/CD pipeline design and automation in Azure DevOps
  • Domain modelling
  • Extreme Programming (XP) practices such as Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development
  • Agile development methods like Scrum and Kanban


Other information:

Mission and Values

Our mission is to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of choice for the UK General Insurance Market. Our values are central to this vision, as they represent how we collaborate how we work together in synergy and continually deliver for our customers:

  • Accountability: We take personal pride in finding solutions and achieving results
  • Innovation: We lead the market by being proactive, product-led and forward thinking
  • Teamwork: We work collaboratively, recognising and celebrating success
  • Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and respect

We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.

Benefits package

  • Salary of £37,833 - £46,240 per annum depending on skills and experience
  • Company pension
  • Bonus opportunity
  • Life assurance and critical illness cover
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Perkbox – an exclusive platform offering a wide range of discounts and benefits
  • Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, increasing to 26 days per annum after three years of service & a holiday purchase scheme
  • A hybrid approach to work
  • Opportunity for a more flexible approach to start, finish, and lunchtimes to allow you to better manage events outside of work
  • Social clubs - whether you’re into your cycling, crafts, or other hobbies, we have a number of groups at Open GI where individuals who enjoy the same pursuits can get together
  • Wellbeing – wills at work scheme, employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders

To apply for this role please click the apply button and send us your covering letter and CV.

Developer
Open GI Ltd.

https://opengi.co.uk/
Worcester, United Kingdom
Simon Badley
Unknown / Non-Applicable
501 to 1000 Employees
Company - Public
Enterprise Software & Network Solutions
1979
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