Senior Software Engineer

Hybrid role based in our Cardiff office, twice a week.

Confused.com has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our Software Engineering team. We're a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross-functional product teams. We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web. This engineering role will support improvement in our product development flow across the whole of Confused.com.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Experience writing code and systems design.
• Experience in automation.
• Exposure to our Tech Stack - .Net, C#, Azure, Javascript, React, MVC, Playwright
• Willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery.
• Day to day you would be working directly with stakeholders in commercial, marketing, finance, product, web, and compliance. Working with them and the product owner to achieve the desired outcomes pragmatically.

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying.

Main Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the availability, performance, quality, scalability, and security of systems and data resources.
• Care about abstractions, API design, and data strategy - without our data, we wouldn’t have a business.
• Passionate about performance and data.
• Pragmatic solutions to business problems that start at requirements gathering and end in delivering value.
• Working with both peers and other teams to design, build, test, deploy, automate, maintain, support, and operate cloud-based solutions and infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting and resolving incidents and problems, and performing changes.
• Have had experience or want to have experience working in diverse, cross-functional agile teams - we value people who want to push themselves into unknown territories.

Key Objectives:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support Confused software, platform, and data assets.
• Reduce errors and defects in our production systems, ensuring customers get the best experience possible.
• Demonstrating willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery.
• Automate tasks wherever possible and applicable.
• Create well-designed, testable, and loosely coupled systems.
• Demonstrate a positive can-do and agile way of working.

Benefits

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

• A competitive salary and bonus package.
• 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.
• Annual leave of 25 days (excluding bank holidays) which will increase with length of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) and additional leave options.
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Simply Health Scheme and access to the Calm app.
• Regular events - company-wide events with insightful external speakers as we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Private medical scheme.

If you would like to know more, please get in touch by emailing recruitment@confused.com.

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