Developer (Digital Services)

at  Open GI Ltd

Open GI is a leading software development company and a trusted partner to the general insurance industry. Based across the UK and Europe, our support and development services make us a truly diverse organization that offers a range of IT solutions to insurance brokers, insurers, and managing general agents.
It is our vision to connect the insurance community through market-leading technology. Our people are placed at the heart of this, and diversity, equity and inclusion are central to everything we do.
We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our people.
No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape where the company will be in the future. We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.

SKILLS

• A good understanding of and ability to work with Java (8 and above) and SQL
• Experience with Unit testing (advantageous).
• Understanding of Design Patterns, Rest API and SOAP
• Knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processors, ngx-formly, Angular framework (11 and above) and Typescript
• Experience of responsive web design or at least one framework (ex. Bootstrap)
• Working experience with Git/SVN
• Experience in setup and maintaining continuous integration & delivery (Azure DevOps) (advantageous).
• Agile delivery skills – for example Scrum / Kanban Framework.
• Problem solving and deep analysis skills including ability to diagnose performance issues.

MISSION AND VALUES

Our mission is to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of choice for the UK General Insurance Market. Our values are central to this vision, as they represent how we collaborate to continually deliver for our customers:

• Accountability: We own our actions and shape our success on the results we deliver
• Innovation: We tackle challenges with fresh thinking and bold ideas
• Teamwork: We work together, recognising we can’t do this without each other
• Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and respect

We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.

BENEFITS PACKAGE

• Competitive salary depending on skills and experience
• Company pension
• Bonus opportunity
• Life assurance and critical illness cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Perkbox – an exclusive platform offering a wide range of discounts and benefits
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum pro-rata, increasing to 26 days per annum after three years of service & a holiday purchase scheme
• A hybrid approach to work, with office attendance typically required twice per month.
• Opportunity for a more flexible approach to start, finish, and lunchtimes to allow you to better manage events outside of work
• Social clubs - whether you’re into your cycling, crafts, or other hobbies, we have a number of groups at Open GI where individuals who enjoy the same pursuits can get together
• Wellbeing – wills at work scheme, employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders
  Please note that we are looking for candidates who are currently based within a 50-mile radius of our Worcester office.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hands on delivery of software working as part of cross functional scrum team. Advocating and implementing improvements in working practices.
• Work as part of a collaborative, customer focussed delivery team.
• Work collaboratively with our internal and external customers to provide a high quality software development service.
• Act in the role of a key Scrum team member, proactively picking up tasks to get things to done.
• Deliver new customer requirements as quickly, reliably and efficiently as possible.
• Contribute to a continually improving Agile software development framework.
• Liaise with Customers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers and QA’s, establishing and implementing requirements