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Senior Software Engineer - Portugal

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-16 London Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary 4,167 GBP/mo (50,000 GBP/yr) 📊 Market 4,500 GBP–6,500 GBP/mo

About the Company

At Zego, we're on a mission to do the good thing, not the insurance thing. Insurance hasn't changed much in over a century. The way we live, work and travel has. We're building the real-time, AI-driven infrastructure that powers innovative insurance, so good drivers get cover that works the way they actually drive. We're not just updating insurance; We're leading the AI evolution in insurance. For us, AI isn't a line on a roadmap or a buzzword on a slide. It's our operating reality, and it's how we build products that back drivers instead of the old insurance playbook. We don't do things slowly, and we don't do bureaucracy. We back high-performance builders who want ownership, early responsibility and the chance to do the most career-defining work of their lives.

Responsibilities

  • ● Solve complex problems with software that is reliable, well tested, resilient and observable
  • ● Develop, test, deploy and own Python microservices that deliver real business and user value
  • ● Shape architectural decisions so systems scale without becoming harder to change
  • ● Lift code quality across the team through reviews and clear, well-documented code
  • ● Ship outcomes as part of a product team, working closely with engineers and Product Managers
  • ● Improve how the team works and influence the direction of its strategy

Requirements

  • ● Backend and cloud microservices - A proven track record building and maintaining backend systems and cloud microservices
  • ● Strong fundamentals - Data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming, applied rather than recited
  • ● Delivery discipline - Comfortable with testing frameworks, debugging, refactoring, version control and CI/CD pipelines
  • ● Data fluency - A working understanding of SQL and document databases
  • ● Ownership at pace - You work independently, take business and product ownership and keep moving when requirements evolve
  • ● You work AI-first - You will use AI daily here, and we mean daily

Benefits

  • ● Market-competitive salary, benchmarked against your function and reviewed every year
  • ● Annual performance bonus, linked to company performance
  • ● Share Options
  • ● Benefits