JOB TITLE: Software Engineer Team Manager

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh location.

About this opportunity

Come join LBG's Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better.

You're a software engineer team lead with experience in Enterprise JavaScript, both front and back-end. You can rapidly assimilate domain knowledge and apply this in a sophisticated technical environment. You can productively collaborate. You manage people, supporting and growing their careers. You build teams that always deliver.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

You will be expected to spend up to half your time managing colleagues. Hence a passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you is essential.

Technically, you must have proven experience leading Software Engineers in:

Enterprise JavaScript/Typescript - React.js and Node.js
Automated testing
Microservices using OpenAPI and Kubernetes

And any experience of these would be really useful

Nest.js
Enterprise integrations and infrastructure
Build and deployment technologies for private and public cloud

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: