Technical Lead

We are looking for an innovative, broadly experienced all round developer with demonstrable business acumen and team leadership skills, to act as the main technical point to drive forward technical solutions as required for our Private Lines division (Private Car and Commercial Vehicle).  Much of this will be web based and / or mobile solutions.

The Technical Lead requires direct working relationships with key business owners, their proxies and project managers responsible for driving forward a particular business division

A successful candidate may be more highly front end or more back end experienced – which is OK, but you must have actively contributed to complex product development solutions with full engagement across multiple areas of technical specialism so is able to fully understand the roles, relationships and dependencies that each of each of these disciplines characterise.

Job Title: Technical Business Lead

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Liverpool City Centre, Hybrid working available

Salary: £70,000-£85,000 DOE

What you will be doing:

• Developing new and enhancing existing user-facing solutions
• Providing technical guidance, decision making and leadership of a delivery team comprising product owners, BA’s, PM’s, front end devs, back end dev, database developers, digital analysts, QA technicians
• Ensuring DevOps Epics, pbi’s, tasks, feature flagging, Assurance criteria and all testing strategies align with company standards
• Ensuring system are well documented and tested for resilience / failover / auto scaling as specified
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Ensuring high quality software product delivery to timescales with reliable estimates and actual effort recorded
• Work with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure common understanding of technical approaches to architecture and implementation
• Collaborating with all other technical teams proactively and with consideration of priorities and workloads, working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team to reach team goals
• Ensure mandated ‘core systems’ upgrades are appropriately managed
• Liaise with 3rd parties as appropriate depending on product requirements
• Provide BAU bug handling, hot fix deployment as and when required
• Putting security and performance at the heart of all products and processes

What we are looking for:

• Capable of advising on modern, secure, technical solutions to achieve product owner goals
• Highly proficient in either front end or back end modern technology tooling and coding standards, especially react, react Native, Next JS, C# dot Net, Event driven systems, Azure Devops, SOLID and clean architecture patterns
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Backed C#, dotNET, VS Core development
• Thorough understanding of front end typescript frameworks and core principles
• Solid understanding of modern specifications when developing components.
• Experience with the React Material UI Framework and an eye for design and understanding UI/UX practices
• Experience working with REST APIs and webhooks
• Knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
• Strong development experience in microservice based enterprise architecture, SOLID principles, clean architecture, Azure service Bus, RabbitMQ, Mass transit, MediatR
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth etc
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Understanding of popular front-end development tools such as Yarn, Webpack, Vitjs, StoryBook, Jest, Eslint, Prettier, Husky, etc.
• Good awareness of logging and alerting strategies and tooling (e.g. loki/Grafana)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
• Good understanding of Google Adwords, GLCID’s, Tag Manager for tracking conversion
• Solid experience of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps

 About Acorn Insurance

 We are a growing business with great opportunities to build your knowledge of the financial services industry. As a specialist insurance provider, we have 40 years of experience helping people secure motor insurance across all of the UK. We help more than 50,000 customers to find a policy that meets their needs and gives them the peace of mind that comes with high-quality insurance.

At Acorn Insurance we provide full training and continuous coaching inhouse you will be given full in-depth FCA regulated industry knowledge and have all the tools necessary to help you personally grow your career with the business.

We celebrate difference and it’s important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves.  

Why Acorn Insurance?

Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)

• Additional Buy & Sell Holidays
• Company Sick Pay Scheme
• Company Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Generous Company Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Mental Health support system via the health assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• A wide network of mental health first aiders.
• Our very own reward and discount platform "Your tomorrow"
• Fresh fruit Deliveries twice a week
• £250 Refer a friend bonus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye test vouchers and a contribution towards the frames
• Regular Employment Engagement including ongoing competitions with fantastic prizes
• Charity fundraising events

All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard.

Due to the length of training and complexity of the role,  we can only accept applications from candidates who have at least one year remaining on their (Graduate/ Post study work) visa. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorships.