As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of a highly skilled and close-knit development team following Scrum methodologies to develop market-leading insurance pricing solutions. This is a varied and challenging opportunity where you will play a key role creating new product features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the product continues to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.

The Role:

• Working with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog
• Designing and documenting software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements
• Implementing and refactoring product code (C#), following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance
• Implementing unit tests, developing test frameworks and associated automated test cases
• Reviewing and debugging code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt
• Working closely with test engineers to guarantee suitable test coverage, identifying and executing manual tests if necessary
• Participating in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices
• Mentoring junior members of the team and taking a lead role for some of the above activities

What you’ll bring:

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Proficient in software development using C# .NET
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment: requirements capture and analysis, estimation, detailed software design, implementation, unit and system-level testing, installation and deployment, maintenance
• Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented design and implementation, design patterns, SOLID principles, Agile and Extreme Programming methodologies
• Experience with software development tools: IDE’s, version control, test automation, continuous integration, defect and backlog management systems
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug fixing activities
• Ability to design high-performance, scalable and extensible software architectures which are also easy to test, debug and maintain
• GUI design/implementation, knowledge of standards and frameworks such as WPF or WinForms
• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations
• Azure DevOps and Git
• Experience of unit and GUI test automation frameworks such as MS Test
• Azure and Cloud Technologies
• Passion for maths, statistics and complex algorithms
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are passion for leveraging AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.

What we offer:

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidatehelpdesk@wtwco.com

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will join a substantial global engineering organisation and work in a team of highly skilled engineers in the SaaS platform area. You will be part of a team that follows Agile methodologies to deliver market-leading insurance solutions. This is a new position created as the organisation continues to grow and accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions that harness the latest advances in technology.

The role is to work on the evolution of the SaaS delivery platform for WTW’s flagship product Radar Live SaaS. You will have worked on large scale and globally deployed SaaS applications that have a mature stack management capability. A sound technical background is essential to be successful in this role with experience in delivering large scale Cloud services.

The ideal candidate will enjoy building automated, environment-agnostic cloud platforms. Have strong troubleshooting and operational instincts. Prefer IaC and policy-driven automation over manual work. Be comfortable working across Dev, Ops, Security, and Architecture. Can balance reliability, quality, speed, and practical engineering trade-offs.
The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be expected to:

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• Maintain and extend IaC modules using OpenTofu (Terraform fork).
• Implement reusable, parameterized templates for Azure infrastructure.
• Automate environment provisioning across development and production.
• Manage backend state, pipelines, and state-change detection integrations.

Platform Engineering & SRE

• Own and improve reliability, observability, and performance of the platform.
• Implement SLOs, alerting, dashboards, and auto remediation where possible.
• Troubleshoot cluster level, networking, and workload deployment issues.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive long-term reliability improvements.

Automation & Tooling

• Develop automation scripts and tooling in PowerShell.
• Build and optimize Azure DevOps (ADO) YAML pipelines.
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, and automated rollout strategies like blue/green or canary where appropriate.

Workflow & Delivery

• Work in an Agile environment using ADO for planning and tracking.
• Collaborate closely with developers, platform engineers, and security.
• Participate in on-call rotations (if required).

Qualifications

What you’ll bring 

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Strong experience with OpenTofu/Terraform for IaC.
• Hands‑on expertise with AKS, including:
  • cluster operations
  • node pools & autoscaling
  • ingress, cert-manager, CNI
  • workload deployment patterns
• Experience of Azure Cloud Services:
  • Azure Front Door (AFD) and API Management (APIM)
  • Azure DNS, Key Vault, MSI, networking, identity / Azure Entra ID
• Monitoring: Datadog, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor
• Skilled in Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) automation.
• Proficient in Azure DevOps: repos, pipelines, artifacts.
• Solid understanding of Azure networking, DNS/private endpoints, Certificate/Secret management etc
• Strong debugging and operational experience (SRE mindset).
• Solid experience of DevSecOps architecture, processes & tooling
• Solid understanding of Observability
  • Process & Tooling
  • Logging, metrics, traces, dashboards

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Experience with:
  • GitOps – ArgoCD or GitOps workflows
  • Zero downtime deployments (blue/green/canary patterns)
  • Prometheus/Grafana
• Microsoft Azure Certification (Az-104, Az-305, Az-400).
• Kubernetes Certification (CKA).
• Terraform Associate / OpenTofu equivalent (when available).
• Experience with high volume low latency SaaS systems.
• Experience with distributed and event driven architectures.
• Experience with Ingress Solutions such as Azure Front Door and API Management.
• Experience with IAM, Authentication / Authorisation.
• Degree-educated in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent industry experience
• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations.
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.

What we offer 

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@wtwco.com

We are looking for a SDET to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications. The SDET role is pivotal to the team, providing technical testing capability within the team to ensure the team can deliver rapidly with the highest levels of quality that we expect from our products. As an SDET you will work alongside other engineers as part of a close-knit Scrum team to ensure our products meet agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

The Role:

The Senior SDET role involves the following activities:

• Define test strategies to support the development of major new features or of new applications,
• Design, implement and document test environments and frameworks supporting the agreed strategy,
• Work with the Product Owner to define User Stories and acceptance criteria,
• Define technical test plans focused on extensive automation covering all levels of the test pyramid,
• Develop unit, integration, system, and end-to-end tests in an automated fashion,
• Develop performance, load, stress, and soak test solutions,
• Execute a wide range of functional/non-functional tests, manual and automated,
• Review and debug product and test code to find defects or performance bottlenecks,
• Support the Product Owner to close stories, confirming acceptance criteria and defect fixes,
• Analyse test data and produce test reports for relevant checkpoints or milestones,
• Participate in Agile/scrum activities (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices,
• Participate in software design meetings and work with software engineers to ensure testability and best practices are built into the product architecture and code,
• Investigate new test tools/methodologies and integrate them as part of the team practices and continuous integration processes, also liaising with other teams to share knowledge and best practices.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven work experience in software quality assurance in technical SDET roles
• Significant understanding of software testing, its main concepts, and processes: different testing levels, methods and types; test estimation techniques
• Experience in building test frameworks from scratch, supporting testing at all levels of the testing pyramid
• Strong experience developing test automation solutions for web-based products
• Experience developing test automation solutions in .NET using C#
• Experience in testing and developing test automation solutions for distributed systems
• Experience in building performance test benchmarking solutions to support .NET solutions
• Effective communication and teamwork skills to interact with team members and stakeholders, from reproducing the reported issue to understanding how the defect has been fixed
• Natural curiosity with advanced analysis and problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile team and environment
• Extensive experience of utilising continuous integration and delivery tooling
• Awareness of advances in engineering tooling/practice especially within the testing discipline

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Hands on experience with Azure Cloud services and deployment of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code concepts
• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker, ACA, Kubernetes
• Experience in chaos engineering and testing tooling
• Experience in automated security test tooling
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or relevant discipline

What we offer 

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidatehelpdesk@wtwco.com

What you’ll bring

• Significant professional experience in software engineering, technical leadership, solutions architecture, or platform engineering, ideally in enterprise-scale environments.
• Proven ability to design and deliver production applications using modern engineering practices, including APIs, distributed systems, microservices, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and cloud platforms.
• Must have experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions using platforms such as Anthropic Claude, including AI agents, tool orchestration, reasoning workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and enterprise-scale automation use cases.
• Hands-on experience building AI-enabled systems, such as LLM pipelines, document extraction, structured output generation, AI-assisted analytics, prediction interfaces, or agentic workflows.
• Experience working with business-critical systems where reliability, maintainability, operational support, and measurable business impact are essential.
• Experience collaborating with data scientists, product managers, QA teams, architects, security teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Track record of mentoring engineers, leading technical delivery, establishing engineering standards, and influencing teams beyond direct line management.

What we offer
Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidatehelpdesk@wtwco.com

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will work as part of a highly-skilled and close-knit development team following Scrum methodologies to develop market-leading insurance pricing solutions. This is a varied and challenging opportunity where you will play a key role creating new product features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the product continues to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.

The Role:

• Working with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog
• Designing and documenting software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements
• Implementing and refactoring product code (C#), following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance
• Implementing unit tests, developing test frameworks and associated automated test cases
• Reviewing and debugging code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt
• Working closely with test engineers to guarantee suitable test coverage, identifying and executing manual tests if necessary
• Participating in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices
• Mentoring junior members of the team and taking a lead role for some of the above activities

What you’ll bring 

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Proficient in software development using C# .NET
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment: requirements capture and analysis, estimation, detailed software design, implementation, unit and system-level testing, installation and deployment, maintenance
• Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented design and implementation, design patterns, SOLID principles, Agile and Extreme Programming methodologies
• Experience with software development tools: IDE’s, version control, test automation, continuous integration, defect and backlog management systems
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug fixing activities
• Ability to design high-performance, scalable and extensible software architectures which are also easy to test, debug and maintain
• GUI design/implementation, knowledge of standards and frameworks such as WPF or WinForms
• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations
• Azure DevOps and Git
• Experience of unit and GUI test automation frameworks such as MS Test
• Azure and Cloud Technologies
• Passion for maths, statistics and complex algorithms
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

Passion for leveraging AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.

What we offer 

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@wtwco.com

Hexwired Recruitment has partnered with a rapidly expanding Electronics manufacturer in Bristol now seeking a Principal Embedded Software engineer with good experience working independently on Embedded software projects from design to manufacture for regulated industries.

The company are working with customers globally to develop novel solutions to a range of applications, utilising the latest technology available! You will be working as part of a dedicated Software team, leading the development of a range of unique products used across a number of industries so this is an excellent opportunity for someone looking for a more varied role or someone looking to get into a leadership focused role.

You will be working as a team to develop innovative solutions. The company are able to offer semi remote working with a preference for engineers to be onsite 3 days a week.

Key Skills:

The company are rapidly expanding and are at the forefront of their industry. They are looking to pay circa £75k dependent on experience along with an excellent benefits package and flexible working. If you’re interested in the Principal Embedded Software job in Bristol role, please apply.

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