Software Engineer

Company Description

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.

Position

Here at Open GI we want to give everyone the confidence to create market leading technical solutions for our customers. Our products cater for high scale, high availability and high performance by leveraging cloud native PaaS solutions. After recent investment we are looking to expand the Integrated Products team to support our anticipated growth and continue to explore new technologies. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic creative team whereby you can leverage your knowledge and expertise working on a very modern technology stack. We believe talent attracts and retains great talent and you’ll be working alongside some great individuals that want to mature and improve all areas within the product and the software lifecycle it is a part of.

Your key responsibilities

• Work within the team to deliver high quality software to our customers
• Drive towards professional coding, to lead colleagues by championing agreed coding standards
• Promote and facilitate communication
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to drive the continuous improvement of our Ratings platform
• Working closely with the team, drive towards comprehensive automated tests and performance tests
• Design, create and evolve applications to be scalable, maintainable, secure and aesthetic

Our Technology and Tools

• Latest versions of .Net (up to version 8)
• Angular
• Azure Dev Ops for Pipeline management
• GIT
• Blazor
• MongoDB
• Microservice architecture
• Fully hosted in Azure including Service Fabric, WebApps, Datalake, Storage, EventHub, App Insights, DataBricks
• SignalR
• CI/CD
• Agile Principles

Requirements

Essential:

• Proven professional experience in software development.
• Experience working within a cross-functional delivery team
• Experience supporting software in a production environment
• Expertise in C# and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Expertise in WebAPI
• Expertise in Unit Testing
• Working experience in databases (Relational e.g., SQL, MySQL or SQLite, NoSQL e.g MongoDb or Cassandra)
• Working experience of code review practices
• Working experience in Web Development (HTML, CSS & JavaScript)
• Working experience in at least one Agile Framework

Desirable:

• Experience of working with evolving architectures
• Experience of cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Experience working with Agile Programming methods
• Working knowledge of GIT usages and pull request etiquette
• Working knowledge in JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Svelte, Vue, AngularJS, Knockout)
• Interest in containerisation (Kubernetes / Docker)
• Experience of continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD

Other information

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 mutual 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, increasing to 26 days per annum after three years of service & a holiday purchase scheme
• 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, this is a hybrid role requiring a minimum two days in-office attendance, at our Worcester Office , therefore we are looking for candidates who live within a 50 mile commutable distance to this office.