Senior Full Stack Developer

Summary: 

We are looking for an experienced full stack developer to join our growing business unit (headquartered in Reigate, ~200 engineers) developing a wide range of market leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications. As a full stack developer, you will be working with agile teams delivering value on the flagship Radar Live product. You will play a key role in designing and creating new features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the foundational components continue to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

The Role: 

• Work with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog .
• Contribute to the design of SaaS software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Coordinate web application design and implementation across multiple streams to ensure consistency of approach.
• Interface between relevant guilds and the development teams on best practice and approach.
• Implement product code, following best practices for maintainability, testability, and performance.
• Implement test-related code (unit tests, test frameworks and associated automated test cases).
• Review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt .
• Participate in Agile/scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices.
• Coach and mentor junior team members, fostering a collaborative and quality-focused engineering culture.

The Requirements: 

The technology stack is primarily Angular, C#, and Azure along with other suitable technologies guided by our internal tech radar. We are therefore looking for a developer with both front and back-end skills to complement our existing teams, hence candidates will need to demonstrate:

• Experience with backend development: RESTful API’s and services for Microsoft cloud deployments using C# .NET Core/ASP.NET, Azure infrastructure and services, JSON/XML.
• Experience in the design and development of responsive single-page/progressive web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS and Angular. Strong emphasis on Angular as the adopted front-end technology.
• Experience of working with cloud technologies, specifically the Azure stack.
• Strong appreciation of UX principles, ability to iterate commercial-quality GUI implementations working from wireframes/mockups and other assets produced by UX designers.
• Experience with CI/CD deployment processes, with a particular focus on developing and support YAMLbased deployments Experience developing test frameworks/test cases for web UI’s and RESTful services (e.g. using Cypress).
• Experience with the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment.
• Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented, design patterns, SOLID principles.
• Experience with software development ecosystem (IDE’s, version control, test automation/CI, etc.).
• Experience in OWASP as well as general security practices.

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Ability to architect high-performance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
• Experience using Visual Studio, VS Code, Azure DevOps and Git.
• Experience with Azure
• Experience with XUnit, Moq, Cypress and other unit testing tools.
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
   

Equal Opportunity Employer

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.

At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a ”hybrid” style, with a mix of remote, in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and “hybrid” is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

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