Lead Engineer

Policy Expert – Lead Engineer (Home) 

🚀Are you ready to transform the insurance industry?

Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.

Having achieved rapid growth since being founded in 2011, we’ve won over 1.5 million customers in Home, Motor and Pet insurance and have been ranked the UK’s No.1-rated home insurer by Review Centre since 2013. 🏆

Hear from our team about what it's like working at Policy Expert ✨  

About the Home team: 

We’re the Home Acquisition team, focused on helping customers find, understand, and buy the right cover for their home. 

This role will lead the technical direction and frontend excellence across our team, shaping what we build and how we build it. From architecture and design principles to code quality and mentoring, you’ll play a key role in ensuring we build robust, scalable systems that are easy to evolve. You’ll help us improve the tools and ways of working we use every day, and contribute to a culture of engineering craft, pragmatism, and innovation. 

You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, product managers, and engineering managers, not just to get things done, but to build the right things in the right way. 

Your day to day: 

• Lead frontend engineering decisions within the Home Acquisition cross-functional team to help deliver our product roadmap 
• Uphold and evolve our architecture and design principles, ensuring systems are simple, scalable, and sustainable 
• Identify and lead improvements to the systems, tools, and processes used by frontend engineers 
• Mentor engineers (or support others in doing so), helping them grow in confidence and capability 
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and stakeholders to shape upcoming work and unblock delivery 
• Facilitate cross-team conversations to ensure technical alignment and knowledge sharing 

Who are you: 

You're someone who enjoys balancing delivery and long-term thinking. You bring depth in frontend engineering (we use React and TypeScript) and architectural thinking, with real world experience building and scaling high traffic transactional systems, ideally in sectors like insurance or retail, where reliability and customer experience are critical. You’ve worked through the kinds of challenges that come with evolving modern web applications in a cloud native setup. We're on AWS, favoring serverless with Lambda and Node.js, you're confident working with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub workflows. You take shared ownership seriously, including contributing to out of hours support when needed, and helping to shape and manage a sustainable rota within the team. You're collaborative, pragmatic, and motivated by helping others succeed while raising the bar for quality. 

You live the Policy Expert values: 

• We act with expertise 
• We care about people 
• We work as a team 
• We stick to our principles 
• We get things done 

And you bring these behaviours to your work: 

• You build the right thing in the right way, balancing speed with technical sustainability 
• You collaborate proactively to align on outcomes 
• You care about clarity, simplicity, and doing the work that enables others to move faster 

Benefits: 

📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode. 

💸 Generous Pension contribution scheme 

🏥 Private medical & Dental cover 

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it) 

😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity  

🚉 Travel season ticket loan 

🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge 

🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme 

 

What We Stand for and Next Steps “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment”  

At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support. 

We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. 

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