Lead Software Engineer

About the team

We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. The product team especially, is the glue that brings the company together enabling us to achieve our ambitious goals and we value our people above all else.

Our core values define our ethos and guide our actions:

• Clear and passionate communication about what we do
• Taking the time to understand problems to provide confident solutions
• Unified teamwork, developing Riskhub together because we believe in the meaningful impact of our work
• Valuing and welcoming everyone's ideas
• Empowering our entire team to make decisions
• Focusing on execution and delivering results

We are seeking dedicated and ambitious colleagues who understand that collaboration is the fastest route to collective growth. If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive at Riskhub, so join us, and make it count.

About the role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with an aptitude for working with others to join our cross-functional product development team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining our mobile and web applications. We are building the next generation of our application with Laravel, Vue and MySQL for our APIs and web apps, along with Flutter for our mobile apps. This is where we do the majority of new feature development. We also have applications running in Zend. All our web applications are deployed on Kubernetes in AWS.

If your application is successful you will:

• take responsibility for the quality of code written by your team
• influence and coach a team of engineers
• help align your team and others on on goals, outcomes, and timelines
• design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and enhance our APIs and web applications
• collaborate with product management to define and implement the technical roadmap

You should apply if you can confidently

• coach your team to reach your level of expertise
• take responsibility for working out the best thing to do for our customers and our long-term future and then deliver it
• write PHP Laravel, JavaScript,, CSS/SCSS and SQL
• explain REST, HTTP methods, error codes and the general architecture of the internet
• understand web security

It would be nice if you

• have prior experience with Vue.js/Nuxt.js or Typescript
• understand containerisation
• have written API specifications
• have worked with microservices
• have prior experience with Flutter or Dart
• have used Zend/Laminas
• want to line manage people
• have experience in the housing sector or compliance

Benefits

In addition to working with fantastic colleagues and enjoying perks such as coffee machines and fruit bowls, we offer the following benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Performance-related bonus

Work location

The role is based in our London hub, located in Farringdon for 3 days a week.

We prioritise diversity and inclusion, recognizing the importance of representing our diverse customer base. We strive to attract the best talent and create an environment that supports and includes all individuals.

Interview process

Our goal is to keep the interview process fairly simple to keep you engaged, but thorough enough to help us each understand if we’re a good fit for each other.

This is what the process will look like for this role:

• Step 1: 30-min initial meeting to get to know each other with another Lead Software Engineer and our Head of Engineering to discuss your background and past experiences – so that we can understand if your skills and expertise match what we’re looking for
• Step 2: During a second, technical, interview we'd ask you to take our technical test on a video call where we expect you to break down a task and complete it within the timeframe.

Throughout the process we’ll give you insights into Riskhub, our current product suite and vision for the future. We welcome any questions as we want to make sure you’re joining a team and company you’ll be excited to be part of.

If you’d like to, we’ll also be able to arrange for you to meet more people from the team.