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Junior Engineer

Team: Engineering

Reporting to: Principal Engineer

Salary: £30k - Negotiable depending on experience.

Location: Fully remote (Must be UK based and right to work in UK)

Hours: Full-time 37.5 per week

As an exciting new brand in the world of ‘Insurtech’, Peppercorn is seeking a talented and innovative individual to join us as a Junior Engineer.

About the role

This is a rare and outstanding opportunity for someone to gain valuable experience working in the highly desired regulated industry of Financial Services & Insurance and with skilled and experienced teammates.

As a growing, fast-moving insurtech, you’ll also experience working in an environment that exposes you to technology and situations you may not normally have the opportunity to, at this stage in your career.

As our Junior Engineer, your work will focus on first-tier developments, changes and defect resolution. You’ll be given regular opportunities to investigate, find and recommend fixes or where appropriate, make those fixes directly.

You’ll work closely with and be supported by our Senior Engineers to investigate issues of a more advanced technical nature - helping to build your own knowledge and experience allowing you to handle any similar examples independently.

Overview of responsibilities

• Be the first line of response to investigate incidents and major issues.

• Work directly with our Pricing and Underwriting teams to update underwriting and pricing rule changes.

• Working with multiple stakeholders and engineers, you’ll help to deliver complex changes, such as changes to our real-time fraud detection platform.

• Work closely with Peppercorn's Service Delivery Manager to provide internal support for queries or changes and these are handled in a timely, efficient manner.

• Contribute to the ongoing security of systems and infrastructure to prevent harm to our internal users and external customers.

About You

To be able to do well in this role, we expect that you will have:

• Experience working with C#, Java, Python or other programming languages.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• A passion for learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, allowing you to bring new ideas to discussions, and sparking debate about established methods.

• Excellent communication skills, able to adapt your style to suit the audience.

• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as the work dictates, seeking to understand the work of other teams in the business to promote a trusting and creative working environment.

• Join and contribute to weekly review and planning meetings.

• Providing regular updates on the progress of your development work streams and releases.

• An openness to receiving feedback on your performance, approach and development and use this to support your continuous professional development.

About the team you’ll join

To complement our empowered culture, the team will actively look to share best practices, coach and mentor you to help in your personal development. You’ll be able to draw on their many years of development, through multiple development languages and delivery methods.

The team you'll be working with believes in the benefits of working in smaller, highly skilled groups who inspire and learn from each other.

They prioritise automation wherever possible, and encourage team members to take ownership and accountability for their work.

We pride ourselves on open communication and collaboration to achieve goals. Get ready to join a team that values efficiency, innovation, and autonomy.

Outstanding benefits package

• Salary: £30K per annum based on 37.5 hours per week. We welcome conversations with applicants on salary as we’ll negotiate based on demonstrable experience.

• Flexible holidays: 30 days + bank holidays (which don’t have to be taken on the bank holidays) + your birthday off. 

• Location: Fully remote with flexible working hours option. We arrange away days throughout the year when the whole Peppercorn team meets up - We pay for your travel and any overnight stays.  

• Pension: Supplementary pension contributions

• Physical and mental well-being support: An extensive package including PMI, 24/7 Health Support, Health Cash Plan, an annual health assessment and more

• Death in service cover: 4 times the annual salary paid to your nominated beneficiary

• Home office support: Make your home your office with our home office package + we use Apple laptops as our ‘go-to’ kit.

About Peppercorn

We’re empowering customers by using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology, we’ve built and launched a fully interactive, digital and conversationally-based experience.

At the heart of the experience is Peppercorn’s supercharged AI Digital Assistant. The Assistant is available at every stage of the customer journey from buying to renewing. On-hand 24/7, it helps customers manage their policy and keep up to date with how their claim is getting on - no waiting, no queues! 

A culture focused on empowerment - ‘The Peppercorn Way’

At Peppercorn, we work with a ‘better together’ approach that encourages valuable collaboration whilst still empowering the person to work autonomously to make things happen. 

We’ve deliberately set out to do things differently. We choose to avoid expensive traditional headquarters so no time-wasting, polluting commutes. We’re already seeing the benefits of a healthy work/life balance from home working. 

The well-being of our Peppercorn family is essential. We’ve worked hard from day 1 to make sure that remote working still promotes a healthy team culture by staying in contact and using the latest tech and working systems that allow for maximum inclusion and clarity.

We strive to be a creative, high-performing team that reflects our customer base's diversity. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds and areas of work experience to do this. Our firm belief is that diversity of thought shapes better business decisions and builds a more inclusive working environment. 

Our values

• Keep improving - “I’m encouraged to build on successes, and learn from failures”

• Make it happen - “I’m trusted to make decisions in a no-blame environment”

• Better together - “I’m part of a great team that supports me”

• Reach for the stars - “I’m given the freedom to be ambitious and the best I can be”.