Senior Platform Engineer - #1727395

Department: Engineering

Location: Cardiff

Description

Hybird - 2 days per week in Cardiff office

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple; take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover, and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services. RVU’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.

Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.

Our platform teams enable our customer facing teams by providing tooling and solutions that help them to deliver change quickly, safely and securely - all whilst providing an excellent developer experience and operational excellence. We are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, scalable, and reliable solutions that enable our internal engineering teams to be high performers.

What You Will Be Responsible For

Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology

Collaboration: Work with fellow engineers to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the platform alongside your peers

Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working

Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security & reliability

Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and all hands

Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.

As a member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:

• Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
• Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
• Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
• Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
• Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
• Designing scalable and resilient systems
• Presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation
  
  

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Confused.com you will be expected to:

• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in the team
• Manage your time and communication effectively between team and organisation level contributions
• Take lead on delivery, guiding the team to successful outcomes
  
  

What We Look For In You

• Experience working in agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
• Experience of building and designing cost optimised Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
• Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches (SRE), including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
• Experience implementing Service Level Objectives and using them to drive error budgets, risk management and alerting
• Knowledge and experience with operating containers at scale within the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Experience in building robust, fault tolerant systems and identifying areas for improvement all in the support of maintaining reliability standards
• Knowledge of incident and problem management practices
• Proficiency in the software development lifecycle, including testing, version control, branching strategies and deployments approaches using modern software technologies
• Ability to debug Production code to identify root causes of failure that lead to improvement
• Experience building and designing APIs or CLIs that solve internal problems or deliver self service solutions for engineers.
• Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily
  
  

What We Offer

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

• 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
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicles scheme
• Health insurance
• Access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected