We build financial products that accelerate the economic freedom for people who move across borders. We started with car insurance — insuring over a million drivers — and we’re scaling beyond. Tens of millions of people move countries each year, facing overlooked financial challenges. Our future is in building financial products around their needs to positively impact their lives.
How we workWe’re really proud of the culture we’ve created. We push for progress every day, because we know that we’ll only hit big milestones by taking lots of smaller steps. We’re always open to helping our team mates, sharing our ideas, experience and knowledge to solve problems together. We take risks, think creatively and experiment relentlessly to meet our customer’s needs, and never pass blame when things go wrong. We encourage people at all levels to take ownership of their work, and to be bold in challenging how we do things. Everyone has a voice and the opportunity to make an impact.
And autonomy and ownership are only possible with clear direction. That’s why we collaborate to do in-depth planning twice a year, and make sure we leave with clear goals and objectives that flow from top to bottom. To make sure we’re as aligned as possible across functions, most of our work rolls up into three tribes; Acquisition, Retention & Claims. Each tribe has multiple teams embedded in it, working cross-functionally to do great work.
We’re so excited for all of the challenges up ahead, and we need more people to help us tackle them! If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our Culture Handbook to find out more.
Our engineers are at the heart of the solutions. They work on product builds from start to finish, solving lots of challenges to help us build fast and scale up! Our engineers cover a range of skills across frontend, backend, full stack, iOS and android and work alongside designers, data scientists, researchers and product managers within our product teams.
Our product teams include: the Growth team, the Efficiency team, and the Claims team (to name a few!) Each team sets its own roadmap and actively pushes our codebase forward.
If you're curious about our Engineering culture and ways of working, check out theEngineering Handbook.
About the Growth Team you’ll be joining
The Growth team’s mission is to bring Marshmallow motor insurance to as wide an audience as possible. We do this by ensuring we have cover that meets the needs - both mainstream and niche - of a huge range of UK drivers, and by ensuring the value of Marshmallow’s offering is clearly communicated to them. In doing so, we contribute to growing Marshmallow’s customer-base, and growing our top line and profitability.
You'll be at the heart of Marshmallow's growth efforts, collaborating closely with Product, Data, and our users to deeply understand customer needs, solve challenges across our products, and deliver an inclusive, seamless, and impactful experience that drives business growth!
What you'll be doingWorking in a product team enabling efficient automation for tens of thousands of policies, ensuring that we provide customers with affordable, instant, and inclusive insurance
Participate in technical scoping, estimation and briefs. We don’t believe in heavyweight processes, and instead aspire to follow Agile principles. Whilst we borrow heavily from practices like Scrum and Kanban, we also borrow rituals from other high performing delivery teams, so we’re looking for engineers who are adaptable and open-minded.
Work closely with the team’s product owner to understand requirements, build solutions, deliver functionality, write automation tests and build continuous delivery pipelines all the way through to deployment, monitoring and supporting these systems in production.
Lead or be the main contributor to medium to large sized projects.
Understanding of rationale and the business impact of proposed changes, and being able to adapt to changing requirements.
Help us evolve our architecture to optimise for product delivery speed.
Participate in setting the quarterly team OKRs.
What we’re looking for from you
6+ years of software engineering experience
Expertise in Java and Spring and the eagerness to learn more
Experience with developing and scaling complex microservices systems
Previous experience with identifying, analysing, and resolving system availability, reliability, and performance issues
Experience mentoring and guiding more junior members of the team
Nice to have: experience working in a high growth start-up environment, frontend development with React, Typescript
Our Tech Stack
Java 22 μServices
Spring Boot with Spring Cloud
MySQL
Terraform
Docker
AWS Fargate
Event Sourcing
Datadog, Opslevel, Teamcity
Perks of the job
Flexible working: Spend 3 days a week with your team in our London office
Sabbatical Leave - Get a 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years
Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance
Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend on a Ben Mastercard meaning you get your own benefits budget to spend on things you want. Whether that’s subscriptions, night classes (puppy yoga, anyone?), the big shop or a forest of houseplants. Pretty much anything goes.
Learning and development – personal budget for books and training courses to help you grow in your role and 2 learning days a year - on us! - to further your skillset
Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva
Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches
Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental, optical and physio (plus more!)
Tech scheme - Get the latest tech for less
Plus all the rest; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, cycle to work scheme, monthly team socials and company-wide socials every month!
Our processWe break it up into 3 stages:
Initial video call with a Tech Talent Acquisition partner (30 mins)
Tech interview with two members of our BE engineering team which is centred around systems design and technical questions (1 hour 30 minutes)
A behaviour culture and past experience interview with our Chief Architect to check that your ways of working aligns with our processes, mission and values (1 hour)
We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application
Background checksTo meet our regulatory obligations as an FCA-authorised financial services company, we need to do some background checks on all new hires. That means carrying out a DBS check and making sure you don't have any live criminal proceedings. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!
Everyone belongs at MarshmallowAt Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.
We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.
We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.
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