Software Engineer

We are looking for enthusiastic and inquisitive Software Engineers with a passion for building modern, modular, and high-performing frontend applications. This role focuses on the design, delivery, and maintenance of micro frontend (MFE) architectures, enabling scalable and independently deployable user experiences across our platforms.

You will work extensively with React, NestJS, and related technologies, contributing to both frontend and backend-for-frontend (BFF) solutions. With a DevSecOps mindset, you will build secure, performant, and resilient applications using modern software engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative products that meet our clients' needs.

Main Duties

Implementation & Delivery

• Design and implement scalable and modular frontend solutions using micro frontend architecture and module federation.
• Develop applications using React, TypeScript, and NestJS, supporting robust client-server integration.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support independently deployable frontend modules with strong testing and release automation.
• Ensure applications meet performance, security, and accessibility standards, including support for lazy loading, code splitting, and caching strategies.
• Use GenAI tools responsibly to support software design, delivery, problem solving and developer productivity, while maintaining strong engineering judgement, quality and security standards.
• Contribute towards end-to-end testing strategies, ensuring comprehensive test coverage across the stack.
• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies and delivery processes, taking ownership of outcomes and blockers.
• Identify, document, and reduce technical debt to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with designers, engineers, and product teams to deliver cohesive and consistent user interfaces across MFEs.
• Collaborate with architecture and platform teams to ensure alignment with cross-cutting concerns such as routing, authentication, and shared libraries.
• Champion a collaborative engineering culture through Chapters, Squads, and Guilds.
• Communicate complex technical decisions clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience Required

Essential skills and experience

• Strong experience in a Software Engineer role, ideally delivering modern web applications.
• Hands-on expertise in React and TypeScript, including component design, state management and performance optimisation.
• Experience with NodeJs or NestJS or similar.
• Experience with end-to-end delivery across the software development lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing and modern software delivery practices.
• Understanding of secure engineering principles, web security best practices and resilient application design.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building micro frontend architectures, including module federation and independently deployable services.
• Experience with cloud-native environments such as GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML or similar authentication and authorisation approaches.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform or related tooling.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and raising engineering standards.
• Experience using, or enthusiasm for learning about, GenAI tools to improve engineering effectiveness, collaboration and delivery outcomes.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and methodologies including Jest, Playwright, and Vitest.

Behavioural Competencies

• Analytical Thinking: Able to break down complex problems and define scalable, reusable solutions.
• Adaptability: Embraces change and works effectively in evolving environments and technology stacks.
• Initiative & Innovation: Proactively improves tooling, and practices to unlock team efficiency.
• Strategic Awareness: Aligns frontend and BFF architecture with broader business and platform strategies.
• Decision-Making: Balances trade-offs and makes well-informed technical decisions in a timely manner.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across cross-functional teams and contributes to shared goals.
• Communication: Articulates ideas clearly and appropriately for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentoring & Leadership: Builds capability within teams and supports career development of peers.
• Customer Centricity: Keeps usability, responsiveness, and performance at the core of frontend delivery.
• Accountability: Takes responsibility for engineering quality, security, and long-term platform maintainability.
• Resilience & Knowledge Sharing: Actively shares knowledge, documents solutions, and avoids single points of failure.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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