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End date

Thursday 22 May 2025

Salary range

£90,440 - £164,920

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Job description

JOB TITLE:  Lead Software Engineer

SALARY:  £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh office

About this opportunity
An excellent opportunity for a dedicated Lead Software Engineer to join the team and build outstanding customer-facing solutions. In this role, there is an opportunity to craft the future of products across the protection landscape, including within our Cavendish brand. This position offers a chance to be part of an ambitious and dynamic team that strives to deliver world-class solutions.

What you'll do…

  • Join the lab engineering leadership team, crafting the team’s direction as we maintain the current platform and build ground-breaking products.
  • Work closely with the head of engineering, product owners, architects, and other collaborators to define and complete the lab's roadmap, scope, and deliverables.
  • Mentor and coach software engineers, developing their skills and career growth.
  • Drive a culture of delivering highly resilient, secure, and quality software.
  • Champion the adoption of best engineering practices, including those on our engineering excellence platform.
  • Support the integration of solutions within the protection landscape.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

You'll be a full-stack developer with proven experience of:

  • Leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to encourage, motivate, and empower the software engineering team.
  • Delivering systems design, software development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Working with multiple programming languages and transitioning to the cloud, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, Java, and related API frameworks including Kafka.
  • Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.
  • Automation and CI/CD across the SDLC using Jenkins or Harness.
  • Cloud-native solutions and integration with SaaS solutions via APIs.
  • Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation.

And any experience of these would be really useful

  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth)
  • Delivering migrations
  • Certifications in any of the above technologies
  • Familiarity with Cloud, ideally GCP

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
  • Share schemes including free shares
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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