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Job Description We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Group Protection technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering modern cloud-based solutions while working across the full software delivery lifecycle. You'll contribute to the evolution of our engineering practices, influence technical direction, and help build scalable, secure, and reliable applications that support our customers and colleagues. Working as part of a collaborative and supportive team, you'll partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders, product owners, and fellow engineers to turn ideas into impactful solutions. You'll also have the opportunity to mentor others, drive continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence. What you'll be doing: • Owning and evolving services and applications across their full lifecycle • Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to understand business needs and shape technical solutions • Designing, developing and deploying scalable applications using modern engineering practices • Driving quality through automated testing, observability and continuous improvement initiatives • Leading technical problem-solving and supporting incident investigation and resolution • Championing secure software development practices and promoting engineering best practice • Mentoring and coaching engineers to strengthen team capability and technical excellence • Contributing to architectural decisions, reducing technical debt and improving platform sustainability Who we're looking for: • Strong commercial experience developing software using Java and JavaScript/TypeScript • Experience building and supporting RESTful microservices in Spring Boot, Node.js or similar frameworks • Solid understanding of cloud technologies, ideally Azure, alongside infrastructure and containerisation tools • Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, preferably including GitHub Actions • Strong knowledge of software design principles, clean architecture and test-driven development • Experience working within Agile environments using approaches such as Scrum or Kanban • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a collaborative, inclusive team culture Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes • Generous pension contribution • Life assurance • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only) • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday • Competitive family leave • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only) • There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online • We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience