JOB TITLE: Software Engineer Team Manager
SALARY: GBP86,964 - GBP102,310
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh location.
About this opportunity
Come join LBG's Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better.
You're a software engineer team lead with experience in Enterprise JavaScript, both front and back-end. You can rapidly assimilate domain knowledge and apply this in a sophisticated technical environment. You can productively collaborate. You manage people, supporting and growing their careers. You build teams that always deliver.
About us
We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you'll need
You will be expected to spend up to half your time managing colleagues. Hence a passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you is essential.
Technically, you must have proven experience leading Software Engineers in:
Enterprise JavaScript/Typescript - React.js and Node.js
Automated testing
Microservices using OpenAPI and Kubernetes
And any experience of these would be really useful
Nest.js
Enterprise integrations and infrastructure
Build and deployment technologies for private and public cloud
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.