Online short-term motor insurance price comparison and direct sales
Tempcover operates a price-comparison and direct-sales engine for temporary motor insurance policies (cars, vans, motorcycles, learner drivers). The tech stack reveals an active modernization: the company is moving away from Azure toward Google Cloud (BigQuery adoption) and Go, while building out product analytics infrastructure from scratch and automating deployment pipelines. Engineering and data hiring dominates the org (10 of 12 open roles), pointing to infrastructure and analytics as the current execution priorities—likely driven by conversion optimization and fraud-detection challenges the business faces at scale.
Tempcover sells temporary motor insurance online through a price-comparison model, matching customers with policies from a curated panel of insurers. Policies are quoted and issued within minutes, 24/7. The company operates under the RVU Group banner (which also owns Confused.com and Uswitch) and is based in Fleet, England. With 11–50 employees, Tempcover focuses on reducing friction in the quote-to-purchase journey while managing fraud risk and claim quality for insurer partners. Current work centers on modernizing legacy .NET systems, establishing product analytics to track customer behavior and return rates, and automating infrastructure to improve performance and scalability.
Core stack: ASP.NET, C#, .NET Core, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, SQL, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Amplify), Terraform, Cloudflare. Analytics: Google Analytics, Amplitude, Power BI. Data pipelines: Fivetran, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Google Cloud Dataflow, Databricks. Currently adopting Go and BigQuery; moving away from Azure.
Infrastructure modernization (.NET systems), CI/CD automation and pipelines, Go adoption, product analytics foundations (event tracking, user behavior), customer segmentation for pricing and fraud detection, and understanding drop-off and return behavior across products.
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