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About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Partner team, you will work on products that support every stage of the partner journey, from onboarding and lead management to helping Partners grow and run their businesses. You will have the opportunity to shape new initiatives while continuously improving existing experiences through experimentation and data-driven decision making. You will be building the platforms and services that power our Partner proposition, contributing to systems such as our Lead Platform or the journeys that help Partners join UW, schedule appointments, and manage their business across our web and mobile applications. You will build scalable, reliable systems that support one of UW’s most important growth channels.

Responsibilities

Be integral in defining team goals, ensuring proposed work aligns with our objectives and driving prioritisation to best achieve them.
Design and implement complex technical solutions that align with our strategy, influencing guidelines and standards across the wider engineering group.
Take responsibility for technical decisions within your team, demonstrating expertise across multiple technologies.
Own large technical features from design to completion, making well-informed trade-offs between progress and perfection.
Provide technical direction to your squad, proactively tackling debt and reducing complexity in our services and processes.
Develop a high-level understanding of our multi-service business model, leading discussions on how your squad’s work contributes to the broader company strategy.
Teach our culture to others and mentor engineers via pairing and code reviews, fostering collaboration where all voices are heard.
Lead complex projects and discovery into unknowns, working well under pressure to drive the team forward.

Requirements

Experience with Go is preferred but not essential.
Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures.
A strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation.
The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support.
Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows.
Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus.
Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
The ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements.
Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices.
Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams.
Hands-on experience with AI development tools; we value engineers who embrace AI in their day-to-day work and see AI-assisted software development as part of the future of engineering.

Skills

Go
Postgres
Kafka
Kubernetes
Distributed systems
Concurrency
Event-driven architectures
System resilience
Observability
Uptime
SLAs
Progressive degradation
CI/CD tooling
Terraform
Cloud workflows
Database migrations
Communication
Collaboration
Problem-solving
Agile methodologies
Iterative development
Mentoring
AI development tools

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote-first
Full-Time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary
Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%

Benefits

Competitive salary
Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%
Flexible working
Optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact)
Work from anywhere for up to three weeks, twice every tax year
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure)
Option to trade up to five days holiday each year
UW discounts
Access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
Matched-contribution pension scheme
Life assurance (up to 4x salary)
Family first policies
Flexible benefits allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership
Eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service
Dedicated learning and development budget
Bi-annual promotion cycles
Belonging groups

About the Company

Hi! We're UW. We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place. One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!
We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money—big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.
We work in small, fully autonomous teams with real ownership of their products.
Join a high growth FTSE 250 business with an ambition to grow our customer base to over 1 million over the next 4 years.
Help us achieve our ambitions whilst learning and having fun.
Become part of a fantastic business culture where people really are at the heart of everything we do.

Equal Opportunity

We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.
You are welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.