Principal Software Engineer

About The Role

Team – Vitality For Business - IT

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days or 14 hours 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:

• Proven work experience in a Software Engineering setting
• 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
• 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!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
• Be there for you when you need us.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.