Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer (SaaS), you will join a substantial global engineering organisation and provide leadership to highly skilled engineers in the software platform area. You will be part of a team that follows Agile methodologies to deliver market-leading insurance solutions. This is a new position created as the organisation continues to grow and accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions that harness the latest advances in technology. 

The is a dedicated role to work on the evolution of ICT Platform Infrastructure capabilities which are the foundation of many of WTW’s market leading products. You will have worked on large scale and globally deployed SaaS applications that have a mature stack management capability. A sound technical background is essential to be successful in this role with experience in delivering large scale Cloud services.

The Role:

• Provide technical input, guidance and leadership to the team (including code quality, best practices, processes, some aspects of release management, etc.).
• Assist in the design and documenting of solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead by example getting directly involved in the day-to-day delivery of work with hands-on development, following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance.
• Participate in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices.
• Coach and mentor colleagues where appropriate, fostering a collaborative and quality-focused engineering culture.