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About the Role
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and help build, enhance, and scale our products. This role involves contributing to the development and continuous improvement of our products and platforms, focusing on building adaptable and resilient solutions. You will play a central role in shaping the future of our product suite, leading technical initiatives, mentoring others, and building scalable, maintainable systems that deliver value to users. Your work will span the full software development lifecycle, from idea to production, and you will be empowered to take ownership of complex engineering challenges. You will also help shape the engineering environment and upskill the team.
Responsibilities
- Contribute directly to the development and continuous improvement of products and platforms.
- Build adaptable and resilient solutions.
- Ensure all built systems are robust, production-ready, and aligned with long-term goals.
- Be actively involved in system design and architectural discussions.
- Shape how the team works by bringing fresh ideas and evolving engineering practices.
- Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and influence the roadmap.
- Embrace a DevOps mindset, taking full ownership of code from idea to deployment.
- Perform AWS solution design, security, and observability.
- Support the growth of teammates through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Foster a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience applying modern software engineering practices in a collaborative team setting, including iterative development, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
- Practical experience designing and building cloud-based systems.
- Ability to use cloud services to create scalable, resilient, and observable solutions.
- Proven ability to make sound technical decisions independently while working closely with teammates.
- Experience improving or evolving existing systems, including working with legacy codebases and simplifying or automating manual workflows.
- Thoughtful and pragmatic engineer who sees software development as a means to solve meaningful problems.
- Cares deeply about building systems that are simple, maintainable, and valuable to users.
- Naturally collaborative, working closely with engineers, product managers, and designers.
- Thrives in team-based environments, such as pairing or ensemble programming.
- Comfortable navigating trade-offs, knowing when to prioritize speed and when to invest in long-term quality.
- Takes pride in work but remains open to feedback, iteration, and learning from others.
- Curious, proactive, and always looking for ways to improve.
Skills
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- Cloud-native development
- AWS
- Iterative development
- Automated testing
- Continuous integration
- Continuous delivery
- System design
- Architectural discussions
- DevOps mindset
- Pair programming
- Knowledge sharing
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
- Adoption and fertility leave
- Generous enhanced parental leave
- Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
- Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
- Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
- Optical benefits
- 15% combined employee/employer contributions to savings/retirement
- Subsidized gym membership
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Time off for volunteering
- Charitable matching of employee donations
About the Company
- UnderwriteMe is an Insurtech software business and subsidiary of Pacific Life Re (PL Re), a global life and pensions reinsurance firm.
- Our vision is to help everyone purchase protection insurance by using data and disruptive technology to transform our partners and markets in order to make their underwriting processes as quick and efficient as possible.
- Our core products are: Decision Platform (a B2B enterprise platform with an Underwriting Rules Engine used by over 30 insurers) and Protection Platform (a B2B2C marketplace used by over 15,000 advisors).
- We are committed to bringing a fresh and dynamic approach to insurance.
- We are a team of highly technical experts with backgrounds in software, fintech, and insurance.
- Every person in our global team is valued for their unique qualities.
- We support employee expertise development and individual ambitions.
- We work hard, thrive on achievement, and also know how to have fun and relax.
- We regularly host team building days.
- Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture.
- We host regular social activities and wellbeing initiatives.
- We are committed to supporting employee involvement in their communities through fundraising, charity events, and volunteering opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities.
- We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
- UnderwriteMe will, upon the request of the applicant, provide accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities.