Principal Engineer

INSTANDA is the worlds first no code platform for Insurance. A pioneering Insurtech, we’re revolutionising the insurance industry by offering insurers a versatile tool to create, manage, and distribute digital insurance products. Our innovative technology empowers insurance carriers to adapt swiftly to market demands and navigate the evolving landscape. Our Technology is consistently recognised as the best policy administration platform for innovative insurers, winning awards in both the UK and US.

INSTANDA has grown significantly in recent years and we are now a team of 200+ employees globally, with partnerships that operate worldwide. We’re continuing to grow our business and our Engineering team is at the forefront of our growth plans.

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The Role:

We are looking for Principal Software Engineers to join us at an exciting time as we continue to invest and grow our Engineering function. You will join a new team within Engineering, as a key influencer in shaping our company's technical strategy, participating in cross-functional collaborations, and leading critical initiatives to ensure the continuous advancement and success of our software development endeavours.

This role isUK based, primarily remote working with some travel required to our London Office. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

What you will do:

• 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

Essential skills:

• 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
• LINQ and Entity Framework.
• SQL Server
• Web APIs
• Source control management
• Unit tests

Experience with:

• Web-based languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Azure DevOps
• Issue tracking tools

Desirable skills:

• 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

• 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

Additional Information:

Our company was built by looking at the world through a different lens and our culture today reflects that by encouraging you to be yourself, speak your mind, and share your opinions. We want people who want to push themselves, be part of something great, and be prepared to challenge if they think there is a better way. Collaboration sits at the heart of how we operate, it has fueled our growth enormously and our aim to be ‘world class’.                                                                                                                                  

We want everyone to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process; if you require any additional adjustments please let us know. Visit for more information

INSTANDA has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  INSTANDA does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly.