Senior Software Engineer (GoLang)

About this role

### Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office and 1 time per month to our Fleet office

Tempcover

Tempcover is at the forefront of the fast-growing world of short-term insurance. Our mission is to make car insurance flexible, quick, and easy for drivers. We’ve sold millions of policies that have helped drivers get where they need to go, but we’re not finished there. We’re growing our team to help us continue in that mission. If you are extraordinary at what you do and want to be a part of a rapidly growing business at the cutting edge of the Insurtech industry, we would love to hear from you!

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.


About the role

Tempcover is currently undertaking an overhaul of its systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Senior Engineer who can bring experience to help shape this journey, working in a role with ownership, empowerment, and impact.

Each engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal.

### What you'll be doing

- Effectively evolve, enhance, and modernise large-scale systems to enable rapid adaptability and continuous improvement
- Drive the adoption of technologies like Go
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems
- Develop and drive automation for deployment, monitoring, and scaling of infrastructure. Build tools and processes to enable continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
- Make data-guided decisions that impact core business metrics and processes
- Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches, including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics, and security best practices
- Facilitate collaboration between teams and build a culture of continuous improvement
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