Engineer

Requirements:

• Genuine product background, with experience in product-led teams that own outcomes for real users.
• Customer-centric approach, including direct engagement with users and experience using research, usability testing, and experiments to validate ideas.
• Ability to use product metrics, analytics, hypotheses, experiments such as A/B tests, and evidence to guide decisions and measure customer and business impact.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and designers and contributing to discovery and product direction.
• Experience developing modern component-oriented front-end applications using frameworks and libraries, with a good appreciation of user experience.
• Proficiency in a range of development technologies, languages, design patterns, and tools; solid C# experience is necessary. Our technology stack is primarily Microsoft and Azure focused.
• Knowledge of principles such as SOLID and clean code, with a focus on writing maintainable, self-explanatory code.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles and experience in an environment that deploys regularly to production. Familiarity with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy is useful, but not essential.
• Sound grasp of modern engineering principles and experience working in small iterations that optimise feedback.
• Awareness of security principles and best practices for secure software delivery.
• Extensive experience working in an agile environment.
• Commitment to continuous learning, keeping up with industry technologies and trends, and sharing knowledge with a technical community.
• Enjoyment of collaboration and contributing to technical excellence as part of a team.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute hands-on throughout the application and tools development lifecycle, from coding and reviewing through release to production.
• Design, build, deploy, and support software across front-end and back-end stacks.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, stakeholders, and users to understand problems and build solutions that address them.
• Help frame problems around customer and business value, validate ideas through experiments and feedback, and measure release impact to support continuous improvement.
• Configure and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation for Azure-hosted solutions.
• Develop and support environments through production, helping ensure reliability and quality.
• Implement and refine DevOps practices, balance development and operations responsibilities, reduce technical debt, and improve application automation and reliability.
• Take ownership of personal learning and acquire skills that strengthen team solutions and individual performance.

Technologies:

• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Support
• Security
• Backend
• UX UI Design

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We are Canada Life UK, part of Great-West Lifeco, and have operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We support the retirement, investment, and protection needs of individuals, families, and companies, and are transforming into a more customer-focused business. We are modernising our IT estate, making greater use of cloud and automation, and moving from a project-based to a product-based approach. In this Engineer role, you will join a dynamic, cross-functional Digital Product Team and contribute across the product lifecycle, from discovery and design to implementation, testing, and operational support. We offer a competitive salary and reward package, including a generous pension and bonus scheme, income protection, private medical insurance, life assurance, and other benefits and support services. We invest in professional development and offer training, flexible working, and opportunities to grow. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where people from different backgrounds and perspectives can belong and thrive, and we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part-time work.

last updated 43 week of 2026