Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

at  By Miles

WHO ARE WE?

Common sense says that the less someone drives, the less driving should cost them. And we agree. But back in 2018, the car insurance industry didn’t see it like that. So, we launched the UK’s first real-time pay-by-mile policies. Since then, we’ve had our members covered for a massive 500 million miles of driving. It’s been an epic journey (which is a bit ironic, since we’re helping people who don’t use their cars so much).
Along the way, we’ve gone from plucky newcomers, to being voted Best Car Insurance Provider 3 times in a row. Though we’re still very much doing things in our own, unique way - we’re now backed by Direct Line Group (alongside some of the country’s best known brands)

SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform team. We’re a Small team, with a commitment to flexibility and autonomy. You’ll work alongside a talented group of developers, QA engineers, and a dedicated product manager to support us in a modern, cloud-native environment with the freedom to improve and scale our existing architecture. With 10% professional development time carved into your working week, you’ll be provided with room to grow and develop your own solutions while thriving and building APIs and services in our AWS cloud environment.
You will be working with the wider engineering team to collaboratively build systems in a scalable way that meet our stakeholder needs and incorporate best practices - supporting our commercial and marketing goals and delighting our Members (By Miles policy holders).
We value building platforms and systems that are resilient. The stack you’ll be working with predominantly consists of Node.js hosted on AWS.

BUT IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT US…

It’s just as much about you. We’re an ambitious, energetic bunch and we have our sights set on great things this year. We recognise the value our people bring, with their inquisitive minds, bright ideas and fantastic attitudes, and we aim to give as much as we receive. It’s only fair.

• Flexible benefits through Thanks Ben worth £100 a month. This can be put towards anything you feel will increase your wellbeing (and, no, it definitely doesn’t have to be a gym membership).
• Access to 16000+ online courses through our Learning & Development platform
• Access to coaching from our incredible in-house coach, Helen McMillan.
• Access to on-demand mental health support through Plum