1st Central · 19 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff1st Central is a market-leading insurance company utilising smart data and technology. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and mentor engineers while designing and maintaining bespoke software and services.
FinanceProperty & Casualty InsuranceFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
You’ll actively work as the leading technical voice within an Agile Scrum team across the full development stack
You’ll lead in the support of existing, and the creation of new, applications & services written in both older and modern technologies
You’ll work closely with Solution Architects, Business Analysts and Product Owners to design modern, robust, workable solutions
You’ll enforce the production of high-quality, high usage and high availability solutions
You’ll ensure software designs follow and enforce the technical guidelines & principles of the overarching enterprise architecture model
You’ll actively advise and feed into the architectural team on engineering best practices, new technologies and their future use cases to help drive the emergent architecture
You’ll act as the custodian of product level architecture designs and documentation ensuring the team fully documents each product and software process
You’ll actively participate in peer groups to push forward new ideas, process improvements and engineering best practices
You’ll keep yourself up to date with current technology trends, new ideas and ways of working and have a general passion of all things tech
You’ll advise the team in new technologies, development tools and techniques
You’ll actively support the software engineering team particularly in coding practices, standards and promoting a DevOps culture, tools, and approach
You’ll undertake Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsibilities supporting the SRE function in an acting-up capacity, whilst working as a Lead Product Engineer. This includes demonstrating accountability, fostering positive behaviours, and effectively working within the on-call process to ensure reliable and efficient operations
You’ll guide; coach & mentor other engineers working in cross functional teams and encourage their own learning and development
Qualification
Required
Good understanding of a service‑based approach to technology, including component, service‑oriented, and event‑driven architectures
Experience developing within a C# .NET environment, with emphasis on asynchronous programming, dependency injection, Entity Framework, and unit testing
Significant knowledge and capability working with SQL
Experience designing and implementing software using cloud-based technologies, preferably within Azure
Strong ability to lead by example, motivate others, and foster a collaborative team environment
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
Good time management and organisational skills
Experience in CI/CD processes, and standard development tooling
Experience leading/mentoring a small squad of engineers
Excellent HTML, CSS, Java Script, and web development experience particularly in a SPA language (Angular)
Strong SQL writing and general database designs experience
Working knowledge and understanding of common software design patterns
Working knowledge and experience of building software to SOLID principles
Working knowledge and experience of writing Unit Tests
Experience of working within an operational/transactional enterprise business
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Reasonable leadership and people management skills
Emphasis on attention to detail and accuracy
Self-motivated and enthusiastic
An organised and proactive approach
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
A flexible approach and positive attitude
Strives to drive improvements that contribute to the success of the business
Company
1st Central
1st CENTRAL offer a 5 Star Defaqto rated car insurance product.
Founded in 2008Haywards Heath, West Sussex, GBR
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
2026-01-16
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