Senior Software Engineer - Partner

Company Description

Hi! We're UW. We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place. One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!

We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money—big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.

Got your attention? Read on…

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with…

We work in small, fully autonomous teams with real ownership of their products.

Partner is at the heart of UW’s growth, enabling thousands of Partners to introduce new customers to our services. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Partner team, you’ll work on products that support every stage of the partner journey—from onboarding and lead management to helping Partners grow and run their businesses. You’ll have the opportunity to shape new initiatives while continuously improving existing experiences through experimentation and data-driven decision making.

You’ll be joining one of our Partner engineering teams, building the platforms and services that power our Partner proposition. Depending on the team, you’ll contribute to systems such as our Lead Platform, which intelligently routes leads to Partners, or the journeys that help Partners join UW, schedule appointments, and manage their business across our web and mobile applications. Working primarily with Go, Postgres, Kafka and Kubernetes, you’ll build scalable, reliable systems that support one of UW’s most important growth channels.

We put people first. It’s all about you…

We’re looking for a senior backend-focused engineer who enjoys building scalable platforms and solving complex business problems. You’ll own deployments end-to-end within your team’s Kubernetes namespaces and help deliver services that are reliable, observable and resilient.

You’ll thrive here if you enjoy taking ownership, working across distributed systems, and collaborating closely with product managers, designers and engineers to deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re improving lead routing, simplifying partner onboarding or enabling new Partner propositions, you’ll combine technical excellence with a pragmatic, low-ego approach while mentoring others as a player-coach.

Job Description

We deliver progress. What you’ll do and how you will make an impact.

Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities (Based on our Engineering Career Progression Framework):

• Impact: Be integral in defining team goals, ensuring proposed work aligns with our objectives and driving prioritisation to best achieve them.
• Technical Mastery: Design and implement complex technical solutions that align with our strategy, influencing guidelines and standards across the wider engineering group. Take responsibility for technical decisions within your team, demonstrating expertise across multiple technologies.
• Planning & Delivery: Own large technical features from design to completion, making well-informed trade-offs between progress and perfection. Provide technical direction to your squad, proactively tackling debt and reducing complexity in our services and processes.
• Business & Domain Knowledge: Develop a high-level understanding of our multi-service business model, leading discussions on how your squad’s work contributes to the broader company strategy
• Leadership & Culture: Teach our culture to others and mentor engineers via pairing and code reviews, fostering collaboration where all voices are heard. Lead complex projects and discovery into unknowns, working well under pressure to drive the team forward.

Possible Next Career Steps

• Staff Software Engineer
• Engineering Manager

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

• Experience with Go is preferred but not essential.
• Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes
• Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures
• A strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation
• The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support
• Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows
• Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• The ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
• Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams
• Hands-on experience with AI development tools; we value engineers who embrace AI in their day-to-day work and see AI-assisted software development as part of the future of engineering

Additional Information

What’s in it for you

Join a high growth FTSE 250 business with an ambition to grow our customer base to over 1 million over the next 4 years. Help us achieve our ambitions whilst learning and having fun. Become part of a fantastic business culture where people really are at the heart of everything we do.

We’ve got big ambitions so there’s going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
• UW discounts: Save on our services and and you’ll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.

Not sure you meet all the requirements? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact they often do.

We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.

Please note, if you are successful and offered a role at UW, you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks, could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.