Job Specifications
Department: Engineering
Location: London
Description
Hybrid: 2 days per week in our London office (Tower Bridge/London Bridge)
About Uswitch
At Uswitch, our goal is to be the UK’s favourite way to choose and manage home-life essentials - from broadband and mobiles to energy and insurance. As we continue to grow and expand our services, we are looking for talented individuals who share our passion for making a positive impact on people's lives. If you want to be part of a team that is transforming the way consumers navigate their household services, we would love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
Excellence: Work in an established & experienced product team brancing into new feature development, supporting and improving the team’s delivery & technical expertise.
Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make the best ideas a reality.
Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using methods that best align with your ways of working.
Data Driven: Utilise rich real-time logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve product performance & 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 part of a product engineering team you will be accountable for the whole product, and work on
Feature ideation, development and measurement
Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
Developing simplified domain models for the product
Maintaining the full stack, from product to payouts
Building efficient CI/CD pipelines
Optimising the UX & performance of the product across devices
What We're Looking For
Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines, such as Designers, Analysts & Product Owners.
Good understanding of Web Development technologies, including HTTP & the Browser, Node, CSS, JavaScript, React. As well as an appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles.
Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges.
Passionate about improving accessibility, enhancing performance, optimising user experience
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.
You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!
Our Commitment to you
At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.
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, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
Electric vehicles scheme
In office gym
Free breakfast in the office daily
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
About the Company
We do more to get you a better deal on energy, broadband, mobiles, personal finance, and insurance.
We are part of RVU - a group of online brands that work to empower people to make confident decisions. For more information, please visit: https://www.rvu.co.uk/ or the RVU LinkedIn page.
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