Principal Engineers

Summary

Join INSTANDA, a leading Insurtech company, as a Principal Software Engineer and play a key role in shaping our technical strategy. You will lead technical excellence, drive innovation, and mentor senior engineers within a new team. This UK-based role offers primarily remote work with some travel to the London office. You will contribute to the development of core product features, work with architecture and DevOps teams, and oversee periodic technology inspections. INSTANDA offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including generous holiday allowance, remote work options, life insurance, a company pension scheme, a discretionary bonus scheme, wellness allowance, and a substantial learning and development allowance.

Requirements

• Extensive relevant software development experience broadly ranging from front-end, back-end, cloud automation and orchestration with depth as an accomplished engineer
• Significant track record of strategic and innovative thinking, as well as execution and implementation
• Experience in implementing solutions using modern software architectures (e.g. OOP, SOLID, Secure coding principles)
• Specialist in clean code and implementation of design patterns for common problems
• Depth of knowledge in Information Security - design, quality review and quality assure solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services
• Ability to analyse current processes, identify, and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of specialists to deliver improvements
• Ability to lead, coach and mentor senior engineers
• Authoritative cloud computing skills (network, security, serverless, Kubernetes etc.) and automation
• Experience in leading high performing teams from a technical perspective
• Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and delegate work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and handle competing deadlines in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Extensive experience in C# .NET MVC
• Extensive experience in LINQ and Entity Framework
• Extensive experience in SQL Server
• Extensive experience in Web APIs
• Extensive experience in Source control management
• Extensive experience in Unit tests
• Experience with Web-based languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Experience with Issue tracking tools

Responsibilities

• Lead technical excellence from design to operations and launch of core product features following best practices
• Drive technical direction and influence overall strategy advising decisions on both Technology and Product investments
• Estimation, solution design, detailed technical design, application technical deliverables including code, associated tests and documentation
• Pioneer and promote methodologies like AI driven development, clean code and clean architecture
• Contribution to functional excellence in terms of definition and maintenance of standards, methods and tools, bringing in best practices from market standard implementations
• Lead complex solution development and application transformation initiatives
• Drive implementation efficiency and effectiveness while building major product features and future projects to minimize cost, increase speed of implementation and maximize value delivery
• Work with the architecture teams on the deconstruction of the platform into business components
• Work with DevOps team to drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle
• Promote effective innovation across all of engineering including proof of concepts and code foundations
• Deep technical skills and capabilities to become a key part of projects defining the future product technical strategy, keen to engage, network and innovate in collaboration with companywide teams
• Oversee periodic inspection processes on technologies/standards and recommend improvements
• Work closely with architects to prepare technical/design specifications required for projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes/AKS
• Bootstrap CSS framework
• Familiarity with Azure
• Experience working for a tech business is a major asset
• Knowledge of large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin
• Remote & Hybrid approach varying with the nature of your role
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme
• ��100 per month to put towards wellness activities
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250 and free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms