Lead Full Stack Engineer

It's an exciting time to join the Technology team here at AXA Health, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers, streamline, and automate our business processes, whilst ensuring the continued stability and performance of our legacy platforms. We're looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join our Engineering team, to help delivery of our digital roadmap, develop our people and capabilities, and support Engineering strategy to drive improvements across all teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, where all our teams are value stream aligned with all the different resource types needed to get from idea to done with minimal hand-offs. We are focused on building out our Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, but involving a significant .NET estate, use of Azure services and React frontend web applications.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either working at your assigned local office, or travelling elsewhere based on business need. Available local office locations are Leeds, Middlesbrough, Bristol, Tunbridge Wells, and Bournemouth. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading an agile engineering team, inspiring excellence, being hands-on to set best practices and ensure correct designs and implementation, and taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per our product roadmap.
• Driving the design, development and ongoing support of integrations surrounding our strategic customer platform.
• Focusing mainly on the backend technology stack but with the ability to move into the frontend.
• Acting as a line manager and mentor for members of our development team.
• Promoting continuous improvement both within specific technology areas and across the IT department.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience leading a high performing engineering team.
• Expert in building and delivering, high quality, well tested integration solutions in Microsoft C# .NET, such as APIs, serverless functions and messaging workflows, ideally on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Proven experience of building CI/CD pipelines & infrastructure as code, Azure DevOps and Azure platform preferred.
• Understanding and experience integrating with Salesforce is desirable.
• Ability to deliver complex solutions to time and budget.
• Experience of front end technologies such as Javascript/Typescript and React/React Native is desirable.
• Ability to work with various stakeholders across the business.
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience.
• Annual company & performance-based bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions).
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary).
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave.
• AXA employee discounts.
• Gym benefits.

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Who we are:

At AXA Health, we help our members be the best version of themselves by providing access to health and wellbeing support for mind and body. We're transforming our business by developing easy, efficient, digital experiences for our customers. We're a collective of specialists passionate about helping our members flourish, whether that's individuals and families, small businesses or huge corporates.