Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple: take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services.

**The role:**

We have an exciting vacancy for a talented Software Engineer to join our team and primarily work on the backend of one of our customer facing systems. As a Software Engineer here, you will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, using cutting-edge tech systems to develop and improve our services. We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.

Confused.com is dedicated to not only saving our customers time and money, but investing in the people who work for us, we are passionate about helping our employees succeed and take their careers to the next level, investing in you and the technologies available to you, to enable this.

**What you'll be doing:**

* Developing scalable, maintainable and testable software solutions
* Writing clean and efficient code using a variety of programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, and designers, and QA engineers, to determine technical and functional requirements.
* Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards.
* Troubleshoot and debug issues that arise during software development and implementation.
* Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development.
* Communicate progress and feedback with stakeholders, including management and project teams.

#### Requirements

* Good experience with multiple programming languages, with a preference for .Net Core/C#
* Experience with one or more of XML/JSON/XSLT/XPath
* Exposure to cloud technology (we use Azure)
* Strong understanding of software development principles, such as agile methodology, testing, continuous integration and deployment, and version control
* Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using best practices
* Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment.

 

 

#### Benefits

We want to give you a great work environment. We want to contribute to both your personal and professional development, and give you great benefits to make your time at Confused.com even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

* A competitive salary and bonus package
* Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
* Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
* Annual leave of 25 days (excluding bank holidays) which will increase with length of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) and additional leave options, including 2 extra days of 'my time'
* Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Simply Health Scheme and access to the Calm app.
* Regular events - company-wide events with insightful external speakers as we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected
* A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
* Private medical scheme
* Confused.com is proud to have been officially recognised as a 2022 UK’s Best Workplace™ and as a 2022 UK’s Best Workplace™ for Wellbeing in the Large size category!

Software Engineer - Backend

Carry1st is Africa's leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, fintech, and web3, we scale awesome content in underserved frontier markets. Carry1st has a proprietary payments and ecommerce platform which allows players to acquire global content using locally-accessible payment methods. We are backed by awesome investors like: Andreessen Horowitz, Google, Riot Games, Avenir, Konvoy Ventures, and Nas.

As a Unity Developer you will be responsible for developing game features, work in close collaboration with studio designers and artists to make our shared vision of the game a reality.

**You will...**

-   Analyze and understand game development needs and feasibility to best serve the production team
-   Develop game features in Unity according to Game Design Documents
-   Develop internal Unity tools for Game Designers (i.e. level design, game variable changes)
-   Understand and integrate 3rd party SDKs/API (i.e. Firebase, IronSource, Singular, etc.) also 1st party SDK for our payment platform
-   Debug and optimize game performance to ensure smooth gameplay
-   Contribute to the planning and estimation of development tasks, providing technical expertise and recommendations
-   Collaborate with other engineers, artists, producers, product managers and designers
-   Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in game development, sharing knowledge and best practices with the team

#### Requirements

**What makes you a great candidate?**

-   3+ years of experience of Game Development in Unity and C#
-   Experience with VCS tools (i.e. Git)
-   Passion for games and knowledge of the mobile gaming industry
-   Self-motivation, problem solving, and ability to work in a distributed team environment

#### Benefits

**What will it be like to work at Carry1st?**

Carry1st is a fast-growing, dynamic place to work. And while we are laser focused on building the flagship mobile internet company in Africa, our team is fully remote and 100% global - with people in 20+ countries! At Carry1st, you will...

-   Build awesome, industry-changing products, every day
-   Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and web3
-   Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
-   Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create

**Some additional perks...**

-   Co-working excursions: Travel to meet your colleagues in cities around the world
-   Awesome equipment: Get everything you need to work effectively
-   Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience
-   Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events
-   Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
-   Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Join us!

Unity Engineer

At FundamentalVR, we are always on the lookout for talented and experienced software engineers to join our team. While we don't have any open positions for Unity developers right now, we are more than happy to receive your application and keep it on file for any future opportunities.

As a software engineer at FundamentalVR, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting projects, from VR product development to tools creation and work on our SDK, through to our Platform team, who focus on how our Unity clients communicate with our extensive suite of back-end services. You'll collaborate closely with other engineers, designers, and artists to create realistic and immersive content that simulates what performing surgery is really like.

We pride ourselves on our open culture, where we learn from our failures as well as our successes. If you're passionate about software engineering and want to make a real difference in the world of surgical simulation, we encourage you to submit an application today. While we can't guarantee a position right away, we promise to review every application carefully and get back to you as soon as possible.

#### Requirements

### What we usually look for:

-   Professional programming experience with Unity
-   Excellent C# skills and Unity knowledge
-   Published products developed with Unity
-   Experience in cross-platform development with Unity (multiple target platforms from the same code base)
-   Excellent architectural skills, experience in designing systems, interacting with a large-scale codebase
-   For Senior to Principal positions, experience in management and leadership is essential
-   Strong project management skills: requirements, risk analysis, estimation and release management
-   Excellent cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication skills, pro-documentation approach
-   Strong understanding of business needs
-   Strong understanding of performance optimisation
-   Experience as a line manager and mentoring other developers

### Nice to have (but not essential):

-   Excellent understanding of 3D Maths and Physics
-   VR experience
-   Experience with force/haptic feedback devices
-   C++ experience
-   Experience in implementing features with server communication in Unity
-   Experience integrating AWS services in Unity
-   Experience in working with 3rd party plugins, services and SDKs in Unity
-   Experience in the development of Unity tools
-   Experience with multi-player development
-   Experience with multi-player development

### Who you are:

-   You understand what it means to work in a startup, this excites and motivates you
-   You see the bigger picture and are able to provide oversight and guidance
-   You like to do everything to a high standard but know when to be pragmatic
-   You lead by example and inspire excellence in others by the way you approach your work
-   You are highly collaborative and an excellent communicator
-   You care deeply about your team, their working lives and their personal development
-   You do not hide problems, mistakes or failures, but rather learn and develop from them

#### Benefits

### What You Will Get

-   A competitive salary
-   Private Healthcare
-   Death in service insurance
-   Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave
-   Perks: Access to hundreds of vouchers and discounts
-   20 days of holidays per year + bank holidays + 3 days between Christmas and a new year + one extra day per year, up to a maximum of 28 days.
-   Opportunity to participate in and become a key player in a fast-paced start-up environment with lots of exciting growth opportunities
-   Opportunity to work with VR plus haptics, the next frontier of simulation and virtual reality

Fundamental VR operates a hybrid working model - with a need to come into the office circa 4 days a month

### Diversity Is Our Strength

Fundamental VR is an equal-opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability or age.

At Fundamental VR, we have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing the best medical training experiences to our clients around the world, and we know our company runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.

You must be a UK or EU national or have a valid visa, unfortunately, we're not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Unity Software Engineer (Mid to Principal)

If you are a back-end developer with a proven track record, understanding the .NET programming principles and sales space, looking to work in a multinational environment, and writing clean codes in your DNA this may be the role for you

**About Us**

Salesflow is a Sales engagement platform, purpose-built for the B2B SMB space as one of the fastest-growing growth hacking tools for startups, sales teams, and agencies. This grew from the pains of many companies looking for effective, affordable, and scalable lead generation by amplifying their LinkedIn profile for prospecting in a personalized way, at scale. Bootstrapped from 2 to over 40 awesome team members in under 3 years, in London, across Europe, and in the Americas'. The roadmap is ambitious combining AI and modern technologies that challenge the status quo and looking for a pragmatic and future-thinking head of engineering to breakthrough the conversation barrier holding our users from generating even more leads.

About the product: salesflow.io

**Responsibilities**

-   Participate in the application support side, focusing on coding, bug fixing and debugging
-   Developing the Back-end of an existing client application (built with .Net Core 3.1, .Net 6)
-   Take on the responsibility of dev investigations, analysis, and providing fixes for different issues
-   Troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement by collecting and analyzing data, processes, and codes
-   Enhancing the user experience by collaborating with developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive code
-   You will be able to use and learn new technologies and technology stack: .Net Core 3.1, .Net 6, AWS, GitLab, MS SQL, DynamoDB, and SQS
-   It is a great opportunity to improve your developer skills by working on the entire application
-   You will be a part of a small and friendly development team

**Requirements**

-   2+ years of back-end development experience
-   BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field
-   Experience with .Net Core, C#/.Net, Design Patterns/ SOLID principles, EF Core, .Net Core Worker Service, Moq/xUnit, T-SQL, AWS DynamoDb, AWS SQS, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, DI (Autofac), CQRS (MediatR), Git, GitLab, CI/CD
-   Excellent time management skills, and understanding of the Agile (Kanban) process
-   Upper-Intermediate level of written and spoken English
-   Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement
-   Excellent analytical skills
-   Strong problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills
-   Ability to work independently or with a group
-   English level -- Intermediate or above
-   Speaks Russian or Ukrainian (optional)

**What We Offer**

-   We offer an international start-up work environment and challenging assignments
-   Unique opportunity to learn and grow within an international company
-   Competitive annual salary USD 18K - 24K, bonuses, and generous performance schemes
-   23 days of paid holiday + Bank holidays
-   Career growth opportunities in a super fun and friendly team

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