| Role Title | Lead Developer |
| Is this an existing role or a new role? | New |
| Manager's Job title | CIO |
| Role Location | Remote |
| Travel required | Travel to London and Manchester required on an ad-hoc basis |
| Benefits | Up to £80k base + 30 days holiday + healthcare + potential for shares |
Background:
C-Quence is an insurance and technology company operating within the commercial mid-market. Established in 2018, our goal is to deliver sophisticated insurance solutions to market using the very best technology tools and data services available. Over the last 3 ½ years we’ve developed a leading platform for trading commercial-lines insurance products by reimagining the placement process and taking a fresh view of product development.
We’re looking for a Lead Developer to join our team and help lead us through the next phase of our exciting journey. We’re an agile bunch who genuinely break down the barriers between ‘business’ and ‘technology’. The successful candidate will be at the heart of our business, helping set technical direction and delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients.
Overall Job purpose:
Leadership of software development capability for C-Quence. Including establishing and maintaining development standards, management of development resource (both perm and contract), development of existing applications and new functionality. This is very much a combined leadership and hands-on role where you will be required to set direction as well as being able to contribute to the daily development tasks.
Key tasks:
- Help to design and build scalable and robust web applications
- Manage development task estimation and sizing
- Manage design and specification of all software assets
- Ensure all code/design meets technical and information security standards
- Drive consistent application of best practice across all development activities
- Proactively participate in peer reviews providing insight for observation and guidance
- Able to work autonomously once up to speed with the technologies and development practices
- Lead recruitment and onboarding of new team members
- Mentor/Train team members
Skills required:
Essential
Javascript, Angular 10+, Angular Material 10+, Typescript 4+, CSS, SCSS, HTML, RXJS 6+, MongoDB 3+, Java 10+, ESB, REST API, Openshift, Git (Bitbucket)
Desirable
Ngx-formly, Nodejs, SocketIo, Jenkins, CI/CD, AWS, Docker, Apache Camel, Performance tuning
Other experience/Soft Skills
- Knowledge of the insurance market is advantageous
- Communication skills within and outside of the team
- Experience of leading development projects
- Start-up/scale-up experience advantageous
- Active contribution in supporting the achievement of shared goals
- Working collaboratively with peers
Regulatory Responsibilities:
You are required to understand and comply with all relevant rules, regulation and legislation applicable to your role. This means:
- acting with integrity and due skill, care and diligence at all times.
- ensuring that customers are treated fairly at all times
- ensuring that communications via any medium meet the principle of 'clear, fair and not misleading'
- undertaking relevant internally arranged training on systems, processes and regulatory requirements relevant to your role
- identifying and escalating risks that impact the business, customers or other third parties
- reporting any issues and/or system/process failures that may impact on service to customers
To be considered for this role please send a copy of your CV along with your contact details to: careers@c-quence.co.uk