Senior Software Engineer

About The Role
Team – Member Servicing, Claims & Member Shared Services
Working Pattern - Fully remote – This role will include one expensed visit a month to the brand new Bournemouth office. Full time, 35 hours per week. 
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
What this role is all about:
As a Software Engineer you will play a critical role in Vitality’s successful business model by building and maintaining software solutions.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will act as an authority with experience in building full solutions across one journey. You will work closely with stakeholders/product owners and a wide variety of internal and external technical teams. This role also involves actively mentoring and coaching associate and other Software Engineers.
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: 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 together with others across varying areas of expertise to achieve the required results.   

Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:

• Extensive experience as a .NET Software Engineer using C# and .NET Core or equivalent (i.e, J2EE)
• Extensive experience using JavaScript frameworks, particularly Angular
• Track record of using OOP design patterns and principles (i.e., SOLID, DRY,etc)
• Knowledge of SQL Server or Postgres
• Experience in producing low-level technical specifications
• Experience of putting Agile methodologies (i.e., SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) into practice
• Be a good team player and willing to mentor others

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 a multi award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
Apart from offering some of the best cover out there, we help people take control of their health. We also help them get healthier, by giving them great rewards when they do healthy things.
As a brand with a challenger mindset, anyone who can show us a better way to do things is someone we want to work with. So when you join us, expect a positive environment and plenty of opportunities to grow your career. You’ll also have some brilliant teammates to support you and a dynamic work schedule to build your skills.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Hybrid and flexible working is also a key part of our organisational setup. So there’s no need to ask. Let’s talk about it at interview stage, so we can make your role work for your lifestyle. 
Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.
 
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.