Staff Engineer

The Staff Engineer provides technical leadership across the Value Stream and Capabilities, supporting architectural alignment, engineering best practices, and scalable delivery.

They collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer, Delivery Lead, Lead Product Owner, and Solution/Enterprise Architects to shape the technical roadmap, oversee the quality of engineering outputs, and support delivery of complex initiatives aligned to target architecture and engineering strategy.

As a champion of engineering excellence, the Staff Engineer drives the adoption of modern design patterns, cloud-native approaches, and continuous improvement initiatives, contributing to Admiral’s long-term technology goals. They also play a key role in mentoring and coaching engineers, supporting capability growth and ensuring consistency in practices across squads.

Main Duties

Leadership

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers across the Value Stream.
• Mentor engineers within your area of expertise to support their technical growth.
• Support the Principal Engineer and senior leadership team with technical risk management, strategy, and decision-making.
• ​Help shape epics and technical deliverables in alignment with roadmap goals.
• Own technical dependencies and contribute to planning cycles including Quarterly Alignment, Monthly Value Stream Planning, and Sprint Planning.

Implementation & Delivery

• Contribute to the detailed design, engineering quality, and technical oversight of solutions delivered within the Value Stream.
• Drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, automation, testing practices, and secure delivery.
• Lead on resolving technical constraints, blockers, and integration challenges.
• Identify and address technical debt, ensuring sustainability and maintainability.
• Oversee vulnerability management by promoting secure development practices and robust solution design.
• Identify and implement continuous improvements to delivery and engineering processes.

Collaboration & Communication

• Facilitate clear communication across squads and roles to ensure alignment and knowledge transfer.
• Promote engineering values such as transparency, quality, openness, and productivity.
• Collaborate with key technical stakeholders including Architecture, Information Security, Data Governance, and Heads of Capabilities.
• Contribute to communities of practice, Chapter and Guild forums, and internal initiatives.

Experience Required

Technical Expertise

• Proven experience in a Senior or Staff Engineer role, ideally within web and mobile application development.
• Deep expertise in React and NestJS, including server-side rendering, state management, and API development.
• Experience designing and operating micro frontend (MFE) architectures, including module federation and independently deployed pipelines.
• Strong background in CI/CD practices, automated testing, and optimised deployment strategies.
• In-depth knowledge of testing frameworks and strategies across unit, integration, E2E, and non-functional domains.
• Extensive experience with cloud-native environments—preferably GCP and Azure.
• Skilled in performance optimisation techniques such as caching, code splitting, lazy loading, and real-user monitoring.
• Deep understanding of web and mobile security best practices, including OWASP guidelines, secure authentication and authorisation.
• Experience with containerisation and infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Familiarity with mobile frameworks such as Ionic Capacitor.
• Desirable: Awareness or experience with Guidewire Software products (e.g. PolicyCenter, BillingCenter).

Behavioural Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Understands how technical decisions support broader business and platform goals.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Actively mentors engineers, shares knowledge, and supports the development of others.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across multiple squads, stakeholders, and functions.
• Accountability: Owns engineering outcomes, promotes high standards, and ensures follow-through on technical commitments.
• Problem Solving: Decomposes complex problems and drives practical, sustainable solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Seeks and drives opportunities to modernise practices, reduce friction, and improve delivery flow.
• Security & Resilience Mindset: Promotes secure design and robust, scalable architecture.
• Knowledge Sharing: Encourages documentation and collaboration to eliminate single points of failure and strengthen team resilience.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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