Senior Software Engineer - Uswitch

RVU Group

At RVU we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know-how, technology and backing of a well-established company.

Our mission is to empower people to make confident decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, Money.co.uk, and Tempcover, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world class online experience for them.

Uswitch

Our mission at Uswitch is to simplify intricate marketplaces through intuitive and easily accessible applications that genuinely improve people's lives. Saving hundreds of pounds a year on bills can make a meaningful difference to the lives of vulnerable people who face the difficult choice of having to choose between utilities or groceries.

Our platforms serve millions of users every month, processing thousands of comparisons daily, and managing hundreds of complex integrations with a wide variety of partners. As a business, we take a tech-driven approach to product development through agile delivery within cross-functional teams.

We strive to create the next generation of comparison platforms, and to reach that goal we are looking for passionate, talented, and empathetic engineers to take a crucial role in building highly performant, accessible, and aesthetically pleasing customer experiences to make managing bills easier.

The team/role

Utrack is a new Uswitch product experience that solves monthly recurring household needs for millions of people. It has been launched initially with features oriented around home valuation and analysis of energy consumption but we have plans to grow it to become the ‘Home usage, tracking and switching’ tool of choice for UK households

What you will be responsible for:

• Excellence: Work in an established & experienced product team brancing into new feature development, supporting and improving the team’s delivery & technical expertise.
• Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make the best ideas a reality.
• Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using methods that best align with your ways of working.
• Data Driven: Utilise rich real-time logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve product performance & reliability.
• Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and All Hands.
• Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.

As part of a product engineering team you will be accountable for the whole product, and work on

• Feature ideation, development and measurement
• Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
• Developing simplified domain models for the product
• Maintaining the full stack, from product to payouts
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Optimising the UX & performance of the product across devices

What we look for in you:

• Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines, such as Designers, Analysts & Product Owners.
• Good understanding of Web Development technologies, including HTTP & the Browser, Node, CSS, JavaScript, React. As well as an appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles.
• Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges.
• Passionate about improving accessibility, enhancing performance, optimising user experience
• Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily.

We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Electric vehicles scheme
• In office gym
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• Health insurance
• Access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected