Software Engineer - Salary £25,000 - 40,000 National & £35,500 - 55,000 London.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic person who is passionate about all things web and new technology to join the Digital Development Team, working across our Digital Platforms. We are looking for someone with great communication who will be able to talk to our stakeholders and colleagues. We would love you to be a part of building great new innovative ways to engage with new and existing customers. It's never been more important for us to hire fantastic people into our awesome digital teams who sit at the forefront of delivering our strategy.

A bit about the job:
We are looking for a Web Applications Software Engineer to join our Digital Platforms organisation, working within MyAviva scrum teams to build, maintain, change and further evolve both existing and new products. You'll sustain our culture of continuous improvement both from a process and technical perspective, ensuring that:

• You concentrate on building working software
  
• When the code leaves development it is production ready
  
• If you change code, you only ever make it better: Ratchet
  
• SOLID/KISS principles are followed
  
• Keep re-use at the forefront of your mind
  
• Only design and build software that is cloud ready
  
• Frequently deliver high value features to our customers
  
• Focus on building great stuff
  

Aviva uses "smart-working", and the person in this role can be based anywhere within the UK commutable to an Aviva office.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• .Net MVC application architecture and an understanding of web templates, web semantics and accessibility.
  
• Comfortable in problem diagnosis and resolution in pressured situations
  
• Experience of working within an agile environment; able to identify and create epics, write user stories, t-shirt sizing and pointing
  
• Developers that aren't afraid to fail whilst also wanting to celebrate success
  
• Knowledge and experience of the implementation of modern software engineering practices, such as Test-Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Code Analysis software (CheckMarx)
  

What you'll get for this role:

• Starting salary £25,000 - 40,000 National & £35,500 - 55,000 London (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
  
• Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
  
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  
• Family friendly parental and carer's leave
  
• 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  
• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
  
• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  
• 21 volunteering hours per year
  

Aviva is for everyone:
We are inclusive - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.

Most of our people are smart working - spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to abigail.aitken@aviva.com