Company Description
About Neilson
At Neilson, our mission is to make life insurance simple and accessible to everyone. We’re dedicated to helping families secure financial protection for their loved ones with a range of options. Since launching in 2012, Neilson has successfully expanded from a UK-only business with 100 employees to an award-winning international operation and leader in the global life insurance market, now with 1000 employees and offices in USA, Canada, Ireland, and Australia.
Job Description
The Role
We are seeking seasoned Senior Full Stack Software Engineers with a bias for action to join our high-impact Communications Team. In this role you’ll play a critical part in helping improve all facets of how we communicate with our customers. The ideal incumbent is a well-rounded Senior Engineer with superlative communication skills AND a collaborative mindset who has fully embraced modern best-practice AI tools - having grown adept at integrating AI into their day-to-day engineering responsibilities.
From email to documents and various welcome packages the Communications team gathers data, aggregates, blends and populates the templates necessary to generate all final output documents specific to each individual policyholder. With several positions available, this rapidly expanding team is a great opportunity for Senior Full Stack Engineers whose professional experience leans toward either UI or the Backend. Come do more of what you love and less of what you don’t with Neilson Financial Services.
Why Join?
Under the guidance of our visionary CTO, Neilson’s Engineering Organization has embraced the Minimum Viable Bureaucracy model to eliminate impediments and blockers. This is the perfect home for both startup junkies AND Senior Engineers on an IC track who are fed up with the headaches associated with boring enterprise organizations! Neilson Financial Services is right-sized, highly profitable, and positioned for explosive hypergrowth.
With a tech stack including .NET/C#, Vue.js, Azure SQL (MSSQL), and Twilio you’ll tackle complex challenges every day while working with the latest technologies on cloud-native platforms and have ample opportunity to influence how we scale our test automaton practices using frameworks like Gherkin. All this, and more within an inclusive, collaborative environment where each team member is empowered by mission, committed to protection, and dedicated to creating legacies.
Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
Full-Stack Development
- Communication and Collaboration – Bias for initiative is critical for success on this team.
- Build modern, responsive UI components using Vue.js (2/3)/Vuex or React, Angular etc.
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Vite, Webpack, NPM, etc.
- Experience with Aspos.Word or/and Open XML SDK
- Work closely with backend engineers to integrate complex C#/.NET (6+ version), APIs and services.
- Build and maintain modular, reusable components and design systems.
- Write performant, maintainable SQL queries and stored procedures.
- Collaborate with product and design to implement intuitive user experiences.
- Drive performance optimization and browser compatibility across modern and legacy environments.
Ideal Match
- Familiarity with AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, Claude, N8N, V0.dev.
- Experience using SendGrid (transactional or marketing emails).
- Build and Used Dynamic Document and Email Generator tool.
- Experience in Insurance and/or Customer Comms domain.
- Knowledge around Azure, Kubernetes, VSTS DevOps.
Additional Information
We Offer
Neilson provides a competitive total compensation package, extensive learning opportunities, and a dynamic environment where you can grow your career. Compensation will be based on experience, skill set, and business needs. Additionally, we we offer a robust benefits package, including:
- 100% remote-first role with flexible working options
- Option of hybrid working (dependent on results and length of service)
- Pension, healthcare, life assurance
- Great central office, only 2 minutes away from Windsor train station!
- Amazing bunch of people that genuinely want to support you and celebrate your wins!
- We work hard but we know how to have fun too; we have regular theme days and charity events for all to enjoy.
- Fancy a morning brew? We have that covered! Tea, coffee and milk provided!
- Employee Assistance Programme to help and support with life stuff!
- We have plenty of local discounts for coffee outlets, restaurants, cinemas and gyms and more
- Free fruit, Flu Vaccinations, Cycle to work scheme, Eye Test/Glasses Vouchers, looking after your wellbeing!
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
If you’re a driven leader with a passion for engineering and team empowerment, we want to hear from you. Join us at Neilson and help shape the future of our technology landscape.