Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best for our customers. Technical Lead Location: Hybrid - Borehamwood Package: Negotiable + Benefits 1 year Fixed Term Contract Brown & Brown Europe is building long-lived, product-led squads with end-to-end ownership of the services they create. You will work in a collaborative engineering environment that values practical delivery, automation, security, quality, learning and continuous improvement. The day to day: You will lead technical delivery within a product-led squad, combining hands-on engineering with day-to-day technical leadership. You will partner closely with Product and Delivery, while the Lead Engineer provides broader cross-squad engineering leadership. Key responsibilities: Lead technical design and delivery for the squad while remaining hands-on. Turn product priorities into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions. Guide estimation, decomposition, dependencies and pragmatic technical decisions. Own technical delivery from discovery through release and live support. Set expectations for code quality, automated testing, security, documentation, observability and operational readiness. Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to enable safe, repeatable releases. Champion peer review, pairing, test-first thinking, small releases and continuous refactoring. Coach engineers through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing. Make technical debt, risks and operational issues visible and lead proportionate action. Use DORA, quality and service measures to drive improvement. Collaborate with Architecture, Cloud, Security and platform teams within agreed guardrails. Support incident investigation and turn learning into preventative improvements. How we work: Work in a long-lived, product-led and stream-aligned squad with clear service ownership. Follow a Build and Run model: design, build, test, deploy, monitor, support and improve squad-owned services. Use a transparent, prioritised backlog and deliver value incrementally through a regular agile cadence. Take part in planning, refinement, daily collaboration, reviews, retrospectives, demos and showcases. Use Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, including testing, security, documentation and operational readiness. Automate build, test, security assurance, deployment and repeatable environment activity wherever practical. Release in small, safe increments and use feedback and delivery data to improve. Work within shared architecture, cloud, security and platform guardrails. Use approved engineering and AI-assisted tools with appropriate security controls and human review. Our technology environment: Frontend: React, JavaScript/TypeScript and component-based UI development. Backend: .NET, C#, APIs, Entity Framework Core, services and integrations. Cloud: Microsoft Azure, monitoring and platform guardrails. Tooling: Azure DevOps, Git, backlogs, CI/CD and deployment automation. Practices: Automated testing, peer review, secure coding, pairing, test-first thinking and continuous refactoring. About you: Strong software engineering experience, with technical leadership experience in an agile team. Advanced full-stack capability using .NET and modern web technologies. Experience designing, building and supporting Azure-hosted services. Strong CI/CD, automated testing, version control and DevOps knowledge. Sound judgement across APIs, integrations, data, resilience, security and maintainability. Experience mentoring engineers and communicating technical trade-offs clearly. Build and Run experience, including production support and service improvement. How this role is distinct: Leads technical delivery within one squad. The Lead Engineer sits above this role and provides cross-squad leadership. Combines leadership with meaningful hands-on engineering. The rewards: A negotiable basic salary and all the usual benefits you would expect, including holiday and a company pension. A collaborative, open and honest environment designed to deliver the best outcomes for our clients and teammates. A flexible working An environment built around supporting and developing our teammates, with funding available for relevant professional qualifications. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants. Founded in 1939 as a small, two-partner firm, Brown & Brown (NYSE: BRO) and our team of companies have grown into one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages while staying true to our foundation of trust, resilience and delivering results. With a team that is as connected locally as it is globally, our high-performing, highly collaborative team delivers innovative risk and insurance solutions. We look for individuals who embrace our culture, thrive in a collaborative environment, are driven to grow and succeed and are committed to always doing what is right. With a unique culture built on integrity, superior capabilities and grit, we value teamwork, trust and courage. We think of ourselves as a team, so we have teammates—not employees, and leaders—not managers. Everything we do is about the greater “WE”—never “me.” While diverse in abilities and experience, we are all connected through our core values, a commitment to our local communities and a shared mission—always doing what is best for our customers.

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