Senior Software Engineer

Domestic & General

Senior Software Engineer building and maintaining scalable applications for Domestic & General. Mentoring team members and leading technical solutions in a rapidly growing company.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeWimbledon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCypressJestMicroservicesNoSQLReactSDLCSQLTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute across the full SDLC, partnering with Engineering, DevOps, and Product
Turn business requirements into robust, secure technical solutions
Design and build scalable, high‑performing applications and services
Write high‑quality, maintainable code with strong testing and automation
Lead investigations into complex technical issues and ensure system stability
Champion engineering best practices and continuous improvement
Shape system and API design using modern architectural principles
Communicate clearly with cross‑functional teams
Mentor junior engineers and support knowledge‑sharing
Contribute to technical discovery (spikes) and document findings
Support CI/CD, IaC, and cloud environments (GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation)
Monitor and support live services, including incident analysis and preventative fixes
Ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, performance, and data‑protection standards

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrate clear expertise across Requirements & Analysis, including ability to translate business needs into clear technical solutions.
Experience with DDD/event storming is a plus.
Experience designing scalable components, APIs, and services using patterns such as microservices and event‑driven architecture.
Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL and clean documentation.
Hands‑on experience with TypeScript (React, AWS CDK), Git, YAML, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bash/Zsh, and modern tooling (VSCode, GitHub, Vite, Rollup, tsx, npm).
Proficiency with unit, integration, and E2E testing (Vitest, Jest, Cypress, Playwright).
Skilled in mocking, dependency isolation, refactoring, and peer review.
Understanding of accessibility, performance, load, and security testing.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with IaC.
Strong focus on observability through metrics, logging, and tracing.
Ability to investigate incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, implement preventative fixes, and ensure backward compatibility.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
Health cash plan – employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
Attractive company pension scheme
Car Leasing – access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand-new vehicles
Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000
Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues
Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends

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Hard Skills & Tools

SDLCtechnical solutionsscalable applicationshigh-quality codetestingAPI designDDDevent stormingSQLNoSQL

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringknowledge-sharingproblem-solvingleadership