Senior Software Engineer

Tesco Insurance • Edinburgh • Permanent • Apply by 16-Feb-2026

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Salary from £50,240 - £62,800 + plus annual bonus and benefits.
Work Level - 2 (Permanent role)
Location - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Reigate or Newcastle, blended working.
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid, however you need to travel to our office 2 days per week for this role.
Closing Date - Applications close Monday 16th February 2026.

Are you passionate about shaping the future of Technology in a dynamic, customer-focused environment? We have the job for you!

Opportunity

Tesco Insurance and Money Services is growing our Engineering team, and we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us continue to deliver excellent customer experiences for our customers, using modern Javascript frameworks and excellent dev-ops tooling.

Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.

The Role

•As a senior engineer, we'd be looking to you to lead feature builds and technical proofs of concepts, help advise on industry best practices, leveraging your experience to assist in design and discovery phases and ultimately enhance our engineering team.
•Senior engineers are the lynchpin of our teams, working closely with engineers and product owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our lead and principal engineers on our longer-term technology goals.

We need you to have (min exp)

We work with the following tech stack, we don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Insurance and Money Services.

•Our core Javascript frameworks include React.js, Next.js and Node.js, written with Typescript.
oWe are also happy to consider experience with other component-based frameworks (e.g Angular.js, Vue.js) or server-side frameworks (e.g Express.js) as we know new frameworks are constantly emerging, but fundamental concepts remain the same
•Our applications run within Amazon Web Services. Experience with this cloud provider is preferred but not mandatory.
oAll our teams are responsible for their own deployments, so we'll provide training where necessary.
•A keen desired to get involved. We expect everyone to get involved in the design and support of our customer journeys. Our teams perform best when we collaborate, and we rely on our senior engineers to help us make the correct decision.
•A passion for sharing your experience. We know the journey of every engineer is different, so we encourage our senior engineers to actively mentor and support other engineers in their own journey.

What's in it for you?

•Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
•Private Healthcare, Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
•Critical illness cover.
•Competitive performance related annual bonus.
•Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
•Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
•Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
•Green car leasing taxable benefit.
•A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
•Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

We also know the importance of balancing work with life's other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we're committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.


Interviews commencing Feb 2026.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes - people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!