Senior Software Engineer

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Intact Insurance is the new name for RSA in the UK, Ireland, and across Europe. It’s a new name and a new way to do business. Backed by global expertise and a commitment to service that feels different, we’re focused on making insurance simpler, faster, and more responsive.

Shape The Future

We’re leading a transformation in insurance helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job, you’re stepping into a career where you can make a real difference.

Grow With Us

We’re customer-driven, community-focused, and committed to helping our people grow. Whether you’re early in your journey or bringing years of experience, we’ll support you with the tools, flexibility, and opportunities to thrive.

Win As a Team

This role is hybrid working, and you will need to be based in either London or Horsham.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in integration and event-streaming technologies to join our integration Platform team. The ideal candidate is a passionate technologist who wants to grow within a modern engineering culture that values continuous improvement, automation, and innovation. Our Integration Platform team plays a critical role in enabling cross-system connectivity, providing high-quality integration solutions, technical expertise, best practices, and platform tooling.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to the development, enhancement, and transformation of our integration and streaming capabilities. You will work across APIs, messaging, and event-driven architectures to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient services. You will also have the opportunity to take part in engineering improvement initiatives, platform modernisation work, and the adoption of new integration and streaming technologies.

It’s an exciting time to join the Engineering team here at Intact, we have planned significant investment to radically transform the shape of our technology estate and embrace new ways of working.

You’ll Make An Impact By

• Design, build, and maintain integrations using API-led, event-driven, messaging, and orchestration patterns.
• Develop streaming components including event producers, consumers, and simple stream-processing logic.
• Contribute to solution design reviews and ensure alignment with established engineering patterns and standards.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and secure coding practices for integration and streaming components.
• Ensure integrations follow operational readiness expectations including monitoring, alerting, resilience, and observability.
• Troubleshoot integration issues and support deployments across environments.
• Collaborate with Architects, Principal Engineers, Cloud, Data, and Security teams.
• Support and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Respond quickly and effectively to production issues, troubleshooting solutions, and taking responsibility for seeing those solutions through resolution

Your Skills And Experience

• Solid industry experience on software development
• Good understanding of enterprise integration patterns (mediation, orchestration, transformation).
• Experience developing APIs and integrations using REST, messaging, or event-driven approaches.
• Experience with one or more integration platforms such as webMethods, MuleSoft, Boomi, IBM App Connect, or Azure Integration.
• Experience with event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform.
• Knowledge of schema governance using Avro, Protobuf, or JSON.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployments using containers, Kubernetes, or serverless.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Considerable debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed systems.
• Good understanding of API testing together with analysing technical requirements and issues
• Working knowledge of AWS/Azur

Why You’ll Love It Here

Being part of our team means you’ll have the support and freedom to bring your best self to work each day. As a permanent member, here’s what you can look forward to

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Up to 11% pension contributions
• Hybrid working + flexible hours
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell options
• Health & wellbeing + virtual GP
• Career development and mentoring
• Inclusive culture + employee networks
• Share investment options

Our DEI Commitment

We celebrate individuality and believe our differences make us stronger. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive.

As an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, we ensure fair consideration for all applicants and offer interviews to all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.

We understand that everyone’s circumstances are different and are happy to explore flexible working options such as reduced hours or job shares to support work–life balance.

If you meet the core criteria but not every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Let’s explore how this role could support your next career step. If you need adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know we’re here to support you.