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We design and deliver insurance-enabled solutions that help platforms, property managers and owners unlock new revenue and deliver better customer experiences.\nFounded in 2016, we began by protecting individual hosts and homeowners with specialist holiday-let cover. That experience now powers our insurance-enabled products, which increase participation, lift conversion and drive revenue across the marketplace value chain: platforms, homeowners and guests.\nWith offices in Norwich and London, and plans for international expansion, we work with some of the most recognised brands in travel as well as major insurance aggregators.\nAbout the Role:\nWe're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and run the systems behind Pikl's insurance products and partner integrations.\nWorking collaboratively with Product and Platform colleagues, you'll work in a modern TypeScript stack: Next.js, React, Express, MySQL, and AWS. 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Contribute ideas and implementations that automate repetitive work with sensible guardrails and human oversight.\n\nMake thoughtful technical decisions within our stack. Help define patterns for service structure, state management, data access, and testing.\n\nReview and improve system design. Provide guidance on performance, reliability, and scalability in a cloud-based environment.\n\nAbout You\nStrong hands-on experience with TypeScript and backend development. Ideally with Express or a similar Node.js framework.\n\nExperience designing and building APIs and services that use relational databases. Comfort working with MySQL, schema design, and query performance.\n\nFamiliarity with AWS. Experience working with services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, or similar is preferred.\n\nExperience working in a modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend environment. Familiarity with React or Next.js is a strong plus.\n\nPractical experience using AI coding tools in your day-to-day work. 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