Intermediate Software Engineer – Squad IHP

Department: Insurer & App Services

Location: North West UK - Hybrid

Compensation: £43,000 - £48,000 / year

Description

Do you enjoy working collaboratively, focusing on continuous integration and delivery, and leveraging the latest tools and technologies while facilitating problem-solving? We’re looking for an intermediate-level Developer who thrives in a team environment and takes ownership of challenges—seeing them through from discovery to delivery.

About CDL
CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.

In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!

Key Responsibilities

You’ll play a key role in a team working on one of our flagship products, hosted on AWS. This product undergoes numerous medium- to large-scale initiatives and enhancements aimed at delivering exceptional user experiences and driving revenue for CDL.

Working in an agile environment, you’ll be involved in every aspect of the product lifecycle—from discovery and design through coding, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment. You’ll also have the opportunity to leverage approved AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Quality is at the heart of what we do, so you’ll have the time and space to build robust systems. In return, you’ll help deliver a highly engineered, highly available product. We expect you to champion best practices while continuously improving your own skillset.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Must have’s:

• Strong knowledge of Go
• Knowledge of CI Tools such as Gitlab CI
• Ability to write effective and robust automated tests
• Experience of working on distributed systems, whether in the cloud or on-prem

Nice knowledge to have:

• AWS
• Agile development
• Infrastructure as Code, e.g. Terraform
• Event driven architecture
• UI development such as Angular
• NoSQL databases
• Java and Python to understand the existing codebase
• Docker

Our Tech Stack:

• AWS serverless technologies such as ecs, lambdas, api gateway and step functions
• Angular/Typescript for UI development
• Go/Python/Java for backend development
  
  

Benefits

Salary

The salary for the role of Intermediate Software Engineerpays up to £48,000p.a. providing a fantastic opportunity for career progression through CDL’s clearly defined career framework (https://progression.cdl.co.uk/).

Your growth and advancement within CDL are only limited by your own ambition and effort.

Benefits

• Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office - SK4 2HD)
• Truly flexible working.
• 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
• Top employer for 9th year running
• Excellent training and development platform
• Opportunities for career progression
• Health and Wellbeing programme
• Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
• Life and health assurance
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Established Recognition Award System
• Great Parental Benefits
• Diversity and Inclusion network
• Pension scheme
• Community projects and volunteer days
• Refer a friend bonus

Campus Benefits:

• On-site free parking

Open plan modern offices

Quiet Spaces are also available

Shuttle bus to and from the station

Subsidised restaurant

Games room and chill out zone

Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events

Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!

Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site

Cycle to work scheme

Shower and dry rooms

Diversity and inclusion
We’re on a journey to keep innovating, that means welcoming new ideas and ways of thinking.

CDL recognises that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

Recruitment Agency Notice:
CDL have a PSL in place, but haven't used them for over 3 years, therefore be advised that any unsolicited submission of candidate details—including but not limited to LinkedIn profiles, CVs, or resumes (whether redacted or unredacted)—will be considered freely given and unsolicited. As such, these submissions will not be subject to any fees, terms, or obligations on our part.

Only candidate profiles that have been formally discussed with and approved by our Talent Acquisition (TA) team prior to submission AND submitted by agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) operating under agreed terms are authorised to submit candidates. Any submissions from non-PSL agencies, or those made outside of agreed processes, will be deemed non-compliant and will not be eligible for any fees or consideration.

This Policy was last updated in April 2025