Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Salary- National : Circa £38,000 - London : Circa £50,000 Are you an enthusiastic, energetic person who is passionate about all things web and new technology and would like to join the Digital Development Team, working across our Digital Platforms? We would love you to be a part of building great new innovative ways to engage with new and existing customers. It’s never been more important for us to hire fantastic people into our awesome digital teams who sit at the forefront of delivering our strategy. A bit about the job: Within Aviva Digital we approach software delivery with an Agile mind-set, focused on delivering small, value driven enhancements. We achieve this with our scrum teams which include developers, testers, Business Analysts and Product Owners to create brand new experiences, small changes to existing products as well as investing in maintaining our existing products to improve code quality against our core development principles. Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experienced and confident developers who want to be hands on and develop great platforms on a large scale
• Technical expertise in Web development technologies including C# MVC, .Net Core
• Knowledge of industry direction and trends within Web and Mobile application development
• Experienced working within an agile environment; able to identify and create epics, write user stories, t-shirt sizing and pointing
• Knowledge and experience of the implementation of modern software engineering practices, such as Test-Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Code Analysis software (CheckMarx)

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary National : Circa £38,000 - London : Circa £50,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus
• Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
• 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
• 21 volunteering hours per year

Aviva is for everyone: We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues. To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you. We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alice Neal a call on 07393469953 or send an email to alice.neal@aviva.com.