Senior Software Engineer
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key member of our engineering team bringing technical excellence and experience of designing and developing cutting edge applications to drive the growth of Loadsure’s products.
You will work in a small cross-functional team developing key products that deliver strategic goals and be involved in every stage of the product development lifecycle. You will play a key role in influencing the technical direction of the product, whilst working with the latest technologies in a cloud-based environment.
You will be highly organised and comfortable building relationships and working with all levels of the firm. Stakeholder management and communication will be vital to the success of the role.
This position requires a self-driven, high-energy professional who’s passionate about disrupting an industry and wants to be rewarded for their performance and contributions.
We believe that with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation, and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.
Key Responsibilities;
- Analysing, designing and creating high quality solutions that are maintainable, scalable and adaptable to future business needs and technology trends
- Building applications as platforms that can easily integrate with other services and enable seamless addition to new functionalities
- End-to-end ownership for the delivery of key initiatives and leading peers in the delivery of broad initiatives as a technical lead
- Collaborating with other engineers and teams, to design and develop new products to complement our existing range of InsurTech products
- Applying agile practices to software development activities
- Participate in code reviews, documentation and the development of coding standards and best practices
- Providing mentorship a to more junior engineers, as well as peers, as well as coaching to meet internal coding best practices
Skills and Qualifications;
Essential;
- 7+ years of relevant commercial experience
- 2+ years at a Senior Software Engineer level
- Strong understanding of software development principles in a back-end environment
- Expert in developing using Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience designing and scaling databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, Firebase)
- Familiarity designing and writing RESTful APIs
- Experience developing cloud-based solutions (GCP)
- Knowledge of practices such as TDD, BDD and CI/CD
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Strong commitment to code quality and best practices
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to deal with ambiguity
- Eagerness and willingness to learn
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Self-starter who takes initiative
- Outstanding interpersonal and problem solving skills
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing technical environment
Desirable;
- Experience leading projects
- Familiarity with data security and privacy
- Familiarity in some of: domain driven design, service oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, large scale high reliability systems, observability
- Enthusiastic about emerging technology and Insurtech
About Us;
We’ve combined groundbreaking AI and industry expertise to create a service that goes beyond conventional cargo insurance. This is holistic freight protection.
With trailblazing end-to-end InsurTech, our mission is simple: empower brokers to better serve the freight community, maximising profits and minimising losses for all.
At Loadsure, we celebrate the spirit of individuals and empower them to grow. Fostering a culture of personal freedom, mutual respect, and collaboration, we enable the professional success of each person, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, or disability. Understanding, communication, respect among all people: This is how we’re nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace in which everyone can thrive.
We Strive for continuous growth and excellence in everything we do.
We Unite through collaboration, leveraging our diverse strengths to achieve common goals.
We Pioneer innovative solutions, embracing new technologies and forward-thinking approaches.
We Deliver outstanding results, ensuring reliability and quality in every project.
Why work for Loadsure?
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic company stock options
- Remote working with great flexibility
- 25 annual leave days, in addition to our recognised national holidays
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
- Birthday day off
- Subsidised gym/wellbeing membership
- PerkBox
- Strong healthcare coverage for employees and their families
- A culture of work-life balance
- A community that gives back
- Engaging and collaborative work environment
- An exciting opportunity to work with a talented team that’s passionate about what they do and believes in their product and people
- Career development opportunities
- Online learning platform
- Department
- Engineering
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
London
Why work for Loadsure?
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A company that knows your worth
We believe that people should be paid what they’re worth. That’s why we offer competitive salaries for all our roles, with a valuable selection of company stock options added on top as well.
- Competitive salary
- Highly flexible company stock options which are fantastic now, but will skyrocket as you help Loadsure grow.
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Flexible to you
People work best when they’re in the right place for them. We work hard to foster a culture of work-life balance, offering a flexible range of remote working options, with plenty of leave options too.
- Remote working with great flexibility
- 25 annual leave days, in addition to our recognised national holidays
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
- Birthdays off
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Healthcare that makes a difference
We take the health and wellbeing of our team seriously. Whether it’s a case of offering subsidized gym memberships, cycle to work schemes or comprehensive healthcare coverage, your health comes first.
- Subsidized gym/wellbeing membership
- Strong healthcare coverage for employees and families, including vision and dental
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Roles that give back
With Loadsure, you’ll have direct access to a passionate, supportive, and collaborative community that listens and grows with you, with plenty of personal career development opportunities along the way.
- A community that gives back
- Engaging and collaborative work environment
- Career development opportunities
- Online learning platform
Regular treats, communications and celebrations from Perkbox, the global employee benefits and rewards platform, no matter where in the world you’re working
About Loadsure
Loadsure® is the InsurTech solution to the global underinsurance crisis. We combined ground-breaking tech with incomparable industry expertise, and developed a revolutionary product that delivers accurately-priced freight insurance in just 40 seconds.
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