Lead Software Engineer (FileMaker)

This role is largely remote with the occasional travel to Southport.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer (FileMaker) to provide technical leadership across our software engineering teams and play a key role in shaping scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions that support our business ambitions.

This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people leadership, technical direction, and active development within an agile (Scrum) environment. You’ll guide multiple engineering squads, mentor engineers at all levels, and work closely with Principal Engineers and Architects to ensure alignment with wider technology strategy.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership across FileMaker development teams, guiding architecture, design, and engineering best practice
Remain hands-on with development, contributing to complex features and system components
Review and enforce coding, security, and performance standards
Support Senior Software Engineers with solution design and technical documentation
Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers and Architecture teams to ensure consistency and alignment
Mentor, coach, and support engineers’ professional development
Promote secure-by-design principles, data protection, and compliance with IT and financial controls
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce duplication across projects

Skills, Experience & Knowledge:

Proven experience FileMaker Developer (v18+)
Strong experience with FileMaker APIs, relational database design, and system integrations (web APIs, WPE, XML, etc.)
Solid understanding of system design, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
Strong experience working within agile (Scrum) environments
Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
Knowledge of the insurance industry (ideally personal lines) is preferred
Strong understanding of secure coding and software security best practices (advantageous).
Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, or industry communities (advantageous).

Why us?

Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited (MISL) is one of the largest Managing General Agents in the UK. With a strong presence in the UK motor insurance market, we specialise in niche motor cover, where our solid market knowledge and experience enables us to create highly targeted products.

Our success is underpinned by our underwriting strategy to identify and apply special risk factors to the customers’ advantage. That, and our skilled underwriting technicians who are friendly, accessible and empowered to make decisions.

We only transact business through professional UK insurance intermediaries and we take pride in fostering excellent working relationships. Our products feature prominently on Aggregators' sites, such as Confused.com, Go Compare and Compare the Market, via our broker partners.

What we offer in return?

A collaborative and fast paced work environment
Private medical health care plan
25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays and the ability to buy additional leave (annual leave also increases with service)
Life Assurance 4x annual salary