Software Engineer - Frontend

Direct Line Group is one of the UK's largest insurance companies and home to some of the best-known brands including Direct Line, Churchill and Green Flag.

What you'll do:

We're a diverse, dedicated team of digital practitioners, re-inventing the digital experience for our customers, our people, and our partners. 

We are looking for passionate Senior Frontend Engineers to join us on an exciting digital transformation journey.  

This is a 12-month secondment/FTC opportunity. The role will require two working days per week from our London office.

You will report into the Engineering Chapter, as a Senior Engineer you will lead change, inspire creativity, and strengthen Frontend Engineering capability across the organisation.  

You will build web applications, libraries, and tooling for Direct Line, Churchill, and Privilege that help inform and service millions of customers in the UK. Working as part of an Agile delivery team, you will be empowered to help create, influence, and improve the user experience of our products and services. 

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will: 

• Lead change, innovation, and drive transformation within our teams: your expertise will identify opportunities for improvement in our frontend applications, tooling, and architecture. 

• Ensure best practices and patterns: you will advocate and enforce best standards, and patterns. Your deep understanding of frontend technologies will help you to guide your peers - ensuring that our code is of high quality. 

• Work on automation and process improvement: you will increase efficiency, reliability, and scalability, by creating automated processes that improve development workflows.  

• Promote engineering ways of working: by taking the lead in establishing the importance of engineering first principles in your team and ensuring they are followed.  

• Collaborate and share knowledge: you will engage with the engineering community, using your expertise to contribute to events and knowledge-sharing initiatives. You will inspire and motivate your peers to learn - improving their capabilities. 

• Participate in hiring new engineers: you will be part in the interview and hiring process, using your experience and insights to identify top talent. You will help build the engineering team.

What you'll need:

We are looking for someone with a broad range of skills and behaviours, some of which will include: 

• Experience in mobile first, responsive web application development using Angular, HTML, SCSS, Typescript, Node.js and AWS. 

• Experience with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. 

• Natural problem solver with ability to engage effectively with multiple stakeholders.

• Experience leading change, with a focus on modernising and improving applications. 

• In-depth understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns in frontend development. 

• Experience in automating builds, code checks, and releases using industry-standard tools. 

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and practices

Benefits

We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, and that's why we offer such excellent benefits designed to suit you as and when you need them:

• 9% employee contributed pension

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover

• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

• Up to 10% annual bonus

• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax-efficient way.

• 25 days holidays

• Buy as you earn share scheme

• Employee discounts and cashback

Ways of Working

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you. Read our flexible working approach here.

We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any reasonable adjustments within this recruitment process, please reach out to us and we can discuss how we can support you with this.

There’s no-one else like you.

No-one with the exact same mix of strengths, quirks, skills and thoughts. That’s why you could belong here. As part of a team of brilliant individuals, in a place that empowers you to be the best you can be. We’re proud of who we are, of what we do, and what every single one of us brings. Join us. Help us keep innovating and putting customers at the heart of everything. To be an insurance company of the future. When we work together, we can all achieve great things. Inspiring, challenging, and supporting each other to aim higher.

Together we’re one of a kind.

Collectively we help every business within our group aim higher. Standing shoulder to-shoulder to stand out in the market, we want to be an insurance company of the future. And with so many areas to choose from, your ambitions are welcome here. See your opportunity to start a career that’s varied, distinct and exciting. Visit directlinegroupcareers.com

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