Digital Web Developer

Remote Working

About Assurant:

One of the biggest businesses you’ve probably never heard of has some very big IT opportunities for people with big ambition. We are Assurant. An innovative Fortune 500 company with 15,000 colleagues around the world, who protect what matters most to over 300 million customers. And whether it’s automotive support, mobile phone and gadget protection or house and business rental insurance, we are always ready to make sure small problems don’t become big issues.

A diverse and inclusive Assurant helps us better understand and connect with our employees, clients & customers.

At Assurant, diversity helps us drive innovation in the global marketplace, and we are strong believers in the strategic value of inclusion and how it improves performance, creates growth opportunities, better aligns us to our clients, and enhances employee engagement.

To achieve this, we believe we must reflect the diversity of the customers we serve

The opportunity:

Our continued significant year on year growth means opportunity for everyone. We need a range of professionals who can harness the power of technology to develop the insights, the products and the strategies that will excite our customers, bring our people together and take our business forward. Every role will help us meet our growth targets and continue to expand our customer base.

About you:

You’ll be working with a team of very like-minded colleagues, you’ll be a decision maker and problem solver. And with access to senior leaders, your career opportunities will grow as you do. Most importantly you’ll be at the start of an ambitious growth period for Assurant across our European businesses. You might be part of a smaller business looking to step-up to the next level. Or, you might be part of a large organisation, but are looking for the next challenge. Whatever your background, this opportunity will help build all our futures.

Role specifics:

This role is responsible for collaborating with the global solutions design and test functions and chosen third party partners to deliver digital solutions, ensuring quality, performance and regulatory standards are met. This role is based Crewe, UK as a member of the digital development team.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to;

• Creates low-level design, codes, tests, corrects, and documents moderately complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools
• Contribute to the implementation of long term strategic vision of the team and technologies, responding to the flexible demands of the working environment
• Collaborates with others as appropriate during delivery and subsequent support of project delivery.
• Build strong working relationships with other developers, and teams throughout IT & Business Change
• Interprets standards to meet project needs and produces web solutions as required
• Provide unit tests of own work and perform peer reviews of colleagues work to ensure quality and provide audit evidence.
• Responsible for production of and maintenance of system documentation
• Manage own workload split between business project, continuous improvement, incident and problems management and service requests
• Work with other developers to ensure quality, supervising junior developers as required

The ideal candidate will have the following skills, knowledge and expertise;

• Proven experience in web application development using
  • PHP, MySQL and Apache
• PHP frameworks e.g. Laravel, Lithium
• object oriented programming / modular programming
• Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks
• Experience of agile methodologies and tools, as well as SDLC based practices
• Experience of unit testing e.g. PHPUnit
• Strong working knowledge of front-end development using HTML5 , CSS and JavaScript/JQuery
• Understanding of version control techniques (Git, Subversion, SourceSafe)
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Full lifecycle experience

To review the full list of responsibilities and requirements, please download the job description which can be found on our careers website

The call to action:

At Assurant, we’re very big on supporting you to be the best you can be. And from flexible working to healthcare support, from training and development to a range of rewards, what matters to you, matters to us. If you’d like to talk about big finance opportunities with the biggest business you’ve probably never heard of - apply today!