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Principal Software Engineer

Employer: Vitality
Salary:
Date Added: 08/12/2023
About The Role
Team – Vitality For Business
Working Pattern – Hybrid – 2 days per week in the any of the Vitality Offices (Stockport, London or Bournemouth). Full time, 37.5 hours per week. 
We are happy to discuss flexible working!

What this role is all about:
Our Software Engineers play a critical role in Vitality’s successful business model by building and maintaining software solutions, in line with quality and time parameters. This will enable operation as a fully integrated composite business, offering brilliant products with seamless, intuitive customer journeys.

Key Actions

  • Implement the software development life cycle: build, maintain, test, deliver, release and document user-friendly and customer centric software solutions, as required
  • Deliver to standards: Understand, adhere to and apply Vitality’s defined technical and process standards to ensure the effective management of risks and the protection of Vitality’s data
  • Provide integrated solutions: ensure solutions are user-focused, strategically aligned and effectively integrated across multiple teams and platforms to ensure the business needs are met
  • Engage stakeholders. Collaborate, work with and develop an understanding of the needs and requirements of both internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve the desired outcomes
  • Build and transfer skills and knowledge. Take responsibility for developing personal skills and expertise aligned to role
  • Collaborate within and across teams. Work effectively with others across varying areas of expertise to achieve the required results

Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:

  • Minimum 5+ years proven work experience in Software Engineering
  • Advanced knowledge of multiple programming languages, specifically including .Net, Javascript (React.js, Angular.js)
  • Experience with a range of modern web application frameworks and integration technologies
  • Full stack development experience including web, services (microservices) and databases.
  • Analytical skills to interpret complex relationships and data sets.
  • Strong problem-solving skills in line with the seniority of this role
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills to train, coach and collaborate with other staff and management.
  • Leadership skills to both influence (indirect) and direct the technical activities of Engineers and provide effective coaching and training
  • Should be evidently a subject matter expert in two of the following software engineering specialisms: Engineering standards and Practises; User Experience; Analysis and Design; Performance; DevOps and CI/CD tooling

So, what’s in it for you?

  • Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
  • A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
  • Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
  • Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

Who We Are
At Vitality, everything we do is driven by our core purpose. To make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives through our market-leading health and life insurance and the Vitality Programme. We empower our members to take control of their wellness and develop long-term healthy habits.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

About The Company
Vitality is an award-winning, dynamic and vibrant financial services provider, with a ground-breaking vision for the future, where individuals are enabled to succeed and are rewarded and recognised for their contribution to our business. We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices – a key element of our Shared-value model. With 1.4m UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place. This applies as much to our people as it does to our members.
Working for Vitality, you’ll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best. We think work should be fun and sociable, and we want our people to get the most out of every day. Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved. Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It’s what we call offering shared values, because a healthy happy team is good for us, good for our members and good for you. 
Find out why people love being part of the Vitality Team

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.

Application Deadline: 05/01/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Submitted Applications: 0

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