Lead Software Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom

7/25/2025

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer

Reporting to: Engineering Delivery Manager

Position Type: Permanent

Why Tokio Marine HCC?

Standing still is not an option in the current world of Insurance. TMHCC are one of the world’s leading Specialty Insurers. With deep expertise in our chosen lines of business, our unparalleled track record and a solid balance sheet, TMHCC evaluates and manages risk like no one else in the industry. Looking beyond profit, empowering our people and delivering on our commitments are at the core of our customer values, and so is a desire to grow and provide creative and innovative solutions to our clients.

The UWP Innovation Team has been established to empower underwriters and management by providing richer information at the point of decision making. We are working toward this by

• Building out a cross-functional team sitting on the underwriting floor
• Developing the team’s understanding of insurance
• Creating tools to support TMHCC’s market-leading underwriting results
  
  

About The Opportunity

The London Market Underwriting Performance team consists of Actuaries, Reinsurance Specialists and Technologists aligned to the Group Chief Underwriting Officer

Working within the Underwriting Performance Innovation team as an experienced manager of Software Engineers and Agile advocate, you will support the team to research, design, develop and run software solutions to transform our market-leading Property & Casualty underwriting business.

Current And Upcoming Products Include

• A bespoke exposure mapping and catastrophe scenario modelling tool
• An ‘underwriter dashboard’ built to enable the rapid capture of underwriting data, including an LLM-based document processing component
• Portfolio performance visualisations and analytics to support underwriting strategy decisions
  
  

Core Responsibilities

• Working alongside Value and Delivery Leads, help the Innovation team to grow from a single, autonomous team to a number of aligned yet autonomous teams supported by a core group of servant leaders
• Line-manage the Software Engineers on the team and provide technical mentorship across functions, coaching and identifying development opportunities within the team
• You will play a core role in the design and implementation of software solutions and the teams supporting them, aligning our technical and organisational architecture to support the needs of the business
• Drive technical excellence to preserve and enhance agility, helping teams acquire new skills and tools as well as identifying and managing technical debt
• Continually improve ways of working, with a particular focus on new approaches enabled by recent technical developments such as generative AI
• Establish relationships with peers around the company, representing UW Innovation to technical stakeholders including IT, Data, Security and Architecture teams
• Consistently enhance operational practices, adapt effectively to change and maintain a strong focus on the underwriting experience.
  
  

Ways Of Working And Behaviours

• A leader and communicator, coaching teams to establish strong technical delivery processes
• Keen to work in collaboration with Value and Delivery leads to build effective, autonomous teams
• Passionate about leveraging technology to deliver great outcomes
• Able to quickly learn new technologies, platforms and languages
• Focus on effective delivery – ensuring high technical quality and efficient, high-value output
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced, changing environments
  
  

Essential

Skills and Experience Specification

• Relevant qualifications and experience i.e. BSc in Computer Science or Engineering, Software Development certifications, etc.
• Significant demonstrable experience in configuring and developing complex software solutions
• Prior experience leading development teams
• Demonstrated mastery of modern technology techniques and patterns such as Domain Driven Design (DDD), TDD, API design, integration patterns and containerisation
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices and principles
• Strong understanding of agile software engineering practices and principles
• Experience of React and FastAPI
• Appetite for continual experimentation & learning
• Experience of AWS
  
  

Desirable

• Awareness of Azure and htmx
• Experience of Terraform, Github Actions and Octopus Deploy
• Awareness of London Market Underwriting or Actuarial systems
  
  

What We Offer

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of Companies offers a competitive salary and employee benefit package. We are a successful, dynamic organization experiencing rapid growth and are seeking energetic and confident individuals to join our team of professionals.

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.