Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our London office (Tower Bridge/London Bridge)

At Uswitch , our goal is to be the UKs favourite way to choose and manage home-life essentials - from broadband and mobiles to energy and insurance. As we continue to grow and expand our services, we are looking for talented individuals who share our passion for making a positive impact on people's lives. If you want to be part of a team that is transforming the way consumers navigate their household services, we would love to hear from you.

The Customer Platform Team
Every interaction with a customer is powered by data and your work will ensure that data is trusted, accessible, and actioned in the smartest ways possible. As the Customer Platform team, we sit at the heart of our organisation, helping internal teams to collect, analyse, and activate customer data powering everything from CRM integrations to audience targeting in marketing campaigns.

We partner with engineers, analysts, product teams and the privacy office to make customer-centric work possible providing foundational tooling like address lookup and consent capture, and offering more advanced capabilities like our internal event stream platform and a fully-managed DBT environment. Our services help teams track behavioural signals, enrich customer profiles, and transform raw data into decision-ready insight all while maintaining a strong focus on data protection.

We primarily write in Go, but also maintain services and tooling in Python and Clojure. You'll help us evolve our architecture as demands grow, and support a culture of autonomy and rigour where context-switching is frequent, but the impact is multiplied across the business.

What you'll be doing

Engineering at Uswitch focuses on:

• Excellence: Work in an established & experienced product team branching into new feature development, supporting and improving the teams delivery & technical expertise.
• Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organization 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: Utilize 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 RVUs perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.

As part of a platform engineering team you will be working with many teams across the business as we support the various initiatives, this will involve:

• Feature ideation, development and measurement
• Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
• Developing data models for products, insights, customers, etc
• Maintaining internal tools and services for stakeholder teams to use
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Ensuring we are meeting our data, privacy and security requirements

What we're looking for

• 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 building and maintaining robust, performant APIs
• Experience with multi languages is a plus - we believe in using the right tool for the job
• Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges.
• 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.

Our Commitment to you
At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this its essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What we offer

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