Job Description – Software Engineer - Lisbon
About Hiscox:
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the work, and we're committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We embrace hybrid-working practices, balancing the ability to work remotely with the culture and energy we experience when we are face-to-face in our offices. Our focus on collaboration and cross-functional working is supported with virtual tools that minimise physical travel, hot-desking neighbourhoods that create a physical sense of community and Team Charters that our teams co-create to set out how they'll work together. This modern way of working has contributed to impressive employee engagement scores across Hiscox and means we're delivering even better solutions for our Hiscox Colleagues. As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things. We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions. Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places. Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.
Software Engineer About us: HISCOX is an international insurer specialized in the market of luxury goods & property, and high-end professional insurance. As experts in risk, we give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions. With offices in 9 European countries, we have a very international staff and encourage a culture that fosters inclusion and collaboration, offering exciting opportunities for personal and professional growth. In our Lisbon office we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees' well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.
The Team: The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists and agile practitioners. We organise ourselves into chapters according to these professional disciplines. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.
The Role: The primary focus for this role is to be a key and influential member of our London Market Software Engineering with a focus on Software Engineering, offering dedicated support to our various Innovation squads as we create new "Cloud First" solutions to add value to the business. There are key scrum ceremonies to attend such as daily stand up but the squad is responsible for the timing of these and the flexibility of the hours they work in a day. Coupled with hybrid working this should enable you to enjoy a comfortable work-life balance.
Key Responsibilities:
Work collaboratively with stakeholders and your squad to deliver value Mentor and coach less experienced engineers in the wider team Support engineers with your expertise and opinions within your squad to drive forward delivery Produce technical design for change or to support requirements Work with engineers across squads to develop and evolve our architecture Ensure code is peer reviewed, unit tested and delivered through automated pipelines all the way through to the live environments Ensure your code is secure Suggest ways for all engineers to work smarter Person Specification: Must have skills:
C# Working knowledge of Azure technologies – Azure Functions, Azure SQL Db, Azure Storage, Azure APIM, Azure Service Bus (topics & queues) CI/CD Pipelines Source Control/Branching Strategies Unit testing JSON SQL Graduate in a technical discipline. Tech Stack:
.Net Azure Functions Azure SQL Db Azure Storage Azure APIM Azure Service Bus (topics and queues) Blazor Angular/AngularJS Service Fabric (on prem) SQL (on prem) WPF (on prem) Training and support will be provided for areas of the tech stack that you aren't familiar with so if you have the "must have" skills, let's talk about your future career within our business.
Why Hiscox?
Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system. Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave). Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc. After 5 years work 1-month sabbatical leave. Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.
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