Software Engineer - Backend London, England
Job description
job description:
This is an exciting time within Hiscox as the organisation is currently undertaking several large transformation projects. This role is within the Re & ILS business unit, which is initiating a programme to integrate, align and re-platform its modelling, pricing and portfolio optimisation systems. The primary focus for this role is to be a key and influential member of our Re & ILS Software Engineering with a focus on Software Engineering, offering dedicated support to our various Innovation squads as we create new “Cloud First” solutions to add value to the business.
We are looking for a strong back end developer with expertise in C#, .Net, SQL with some azure experience following Agile methodologies.
Within this role you will be working in an autonomous squad with other software engineers, data engineers and SDETs in an Agile way to deliver the Product Owner’s vision quickly and incrementally.
There are key scrum ceremonies to attend such as daily stand up but the squad is responsible for the timing of these and the flexibility of the hours they work in a day which coupled with Hiscox Hybrid working style between home and office, should mean that dentist appointments and school runs are made easier.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders and your squad to deliver value
- Support engineers with your expertise and opinions within your squad to drive forward delivery
- Work with engineers across squads to develop and evolve our architecture
- Ensure code is peer reviewed, unit tested, integration tested and delivered through automated pipelines all the way through to the live environments
- Ensure your code is secure
- Suggest ways for all engineers to work smarter
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Strong commercial Microsoft .NET/C# with SQL Server development
- Have a very solid foundation of good development practices
- Experience building and evolving API services, middle-tier and backend applications built in the .NET framework / .Net core using appropriate design patterns
- Cloud based(Azure) development and integration experience
- Working in an Agile, Automated Build (CI) and Deployment environments, supported by appropriate tooling
- Some relational database design, including stored procedures, indexing and query optimisation
- Support for legacy applications (if required)
Advantageous:
- Experience in Finance, Insurance and/or Reinsurance
- Cloud Data platforms / Snowflake / Azure data lakes
- WPF (on prem)
- Experience with parallel programming, building highly performant APIs
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We have also learned over the past 2 years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.
This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.
We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.”
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