Senior Software Engineer (Java) - 12 months FTC

Company Description

This is a 12 month staff fixed term contract (maternity cover), remote working but based in the United Kingdom.

Contract start date is August ideally

Insights’ products build self-awareness for individuals, teams, leaders, and organisations—enabling stronger relationships, better collaboration, and improved performance.

Innovation in Learning and Development is critical to maintaining differentiation, and this role contributes to building new tools and experiences that enhance product delivery.

The Product Technology department operates across four multi-disciplinary delivery squads (engineering, design, QA, product). The Senior Software Engineer will join one squad, contributing to the design, development, and delivery of new products and experiences.

We use an iterative agile approach with continuous integration and delivery, supported by automated pipelines. Our systems run on modern cloud infrastructure (AWS), with a strong focus on quality practices and up-to-date technologies.

We empower engineers to take ownership of delivery and determine the best technical approach. Continuous learning, weekly innovation time, and a culture of respectful collaboration support strong relationships, open communication, and effective teamwork.

Job Description

What you#ll need to do to succeed

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of Insights' products and services and apply this knowledge during refinement, design, and building phases to ensure the correct features are developed.

Become part of a squad

• Be an active member of an Insights cross discipline delivery squad
• Attend and actively participate in the squad's Agile SCRUM ceremonies
• Contribute towards refining and improving delivery processes within the squad
• Share opinions, ideas, and experience regarding process, features and technical topics which may arise

Become part of a department

• While you deliver within your squad, you should also actively contribute to initiatives that improve the department's overall delivery capabilities

• Share your experience and actively engage in mentoring less experienced colleagues
• Engage in cross-squad collaboration to solve shared technical challenges
• Understand the impact of technical debt and take action to repay it
• Participate in third-line application support and resolution of production issues

Apply technical experience

• Design, develop, release and support robust, scalable and adaptable software
• Collaborate with Technical Leads to design software architecture
• Conduct code reviews and give respectful and constructive feedback
• Contribute to the definition and improvement of development processes and policies
• Write and maintain tests and contribute to expanding test suites
• Provide appropriate documentation for solutions and promote the development knowledge base within the team

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Significant experience in modern Java (17+), Spring Framework(s) & Gradle or Maven
• Experience with AWS & its managed services portfolio, or similar cloud platform
• Experience in developing and delivering RESTful APIs
• Working with & designing for an RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, SQLServer, etc)
• Very strong focus on automation through the entire engineering lifecycle (development, test & deployment)
• Strong technical viewpoint supported by the implementation of robust, scalable, and successful solutions
• Solid grasp of agile practices, as well as strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to handle complexity and adhere to project standards
• Leading the use of the latest technologies to deliver cutting edge software
• Mentoring and support others

Other useful experience and skills:

• Experience in writing infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Experience with jOOQ ((Java Object Oriented Querying)
• Experience in building & designing scalable, stateless API backends

Additional Information

Benefits:

• 35 days holidays
• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income Protection
• Pension Plan
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance
• Electric Car Scheme
• Gymflex
• Employee Giving
• My Advantage – Employee Discounts
• Critical Illness cover
• Employee Assistance Program
• Holiday purchase option
• Flexible working

Everyone is welcome at Insights. We’re dedicated to creating a space where you belong — that means accepting you for who you are now and supporting you on your journey towards whoever you want to become.

Our colourful solutions help people see themselves and others in a new light and we love encouraging our diverse global community to experience the transformational power of Insights Discovery. Through listening and learning, we will continue to foster the connections that matter to build a more inclusive culture.

It is in our nature to nurture. We have developed an organisation which puts care for our people, inclusion, belonging and wellbeing at the heart of our approach. We’re strengthened by a community where we work together to co-create a culture that celebrates difference and welcomes everybody.

We love learning. We want to be better tomorrow than we are today and we’re up for the journey. Unapologetically human, undoubtedly individual. Colourful to our core.

Read more about inclusivity at Insights via the vacancy page on our website: https://www.insights.com/inclusively-insights/