Senior Platform Engineer, UnderwriteMe
£90-115k
2 days a week in office
Building software products for the life insurance market
Posted today
Building software products for the life insurance market
101-200 employees
Posted today
£90-115k
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Using tech to ensure everyone who wants life insurance can access it.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a high-impact platform engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure and tooling problems in the cloud. You care deeply about creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient platform solutions that provide a solid and delightful foundation for other teams to build upon
- You have a deep experience of operating Kubernetes workloads at scale and maintaining a secure, well-governed network stack around them. You are a strong advocate for clear, maintainable and well-tested IaC configurations that make changes safe and easy
- You’re collaborative and approachable; as much at home sharing your knowledge and experience with team-mates or advising platform users as you are being being knee-deep in a gnarly helm chart squashing bugs
- Extensive experience designing, building & operating distributed AWS cloud infrastructure, including (but not limited to) networking, IAM, observability & monitoring, security & governance, and maintaining kubernetes clusters
- Deep knowledge of helm and terraform best practices
- Proven ability to lead initiatives — from discovery through delivery, solving problems and finding the best solutions that balance efficiency and ease of use
- Hands-on expertise in observability, monitoring, and SRE, with experience monitoring and improving the reliability and efficiency of cloud solutions. Datadog experience a bonus
- Experience modernising legacy systems and simplifying architecture, reducing cognitive load and making systems easier to reason about, maintain, and evolve over time
Desirable
- You appreciate the value of a paved road in providing a reliable platform, but also know when rigidity needs to be avoided for the benefit of the user
- You have your finger on the pulse; both in terms of industry best-practices and technologies and also in how our users interact with our platform - identifying pain-points and needs that can be solved to improve the developer experience
- You look forward to collaborating with your team in-person 2 days a week in our London office
- You strive to automate all the things, reducing manual toil and opportunity for human error
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us maintain, optimise and grow our cloud platform by driving and delivering initiatives covering low-level cloud architecture, developer experience and tooling, SRE and cloud security
- This is a high-impact, hands-on technical role where you’ll work within a team of talented platform & cloud engineers to improve scalability, reliability, developer experience and time-to-market for our product teams
- You’ll combine your experience operating large systems in the cloud with a passion for developer experience and streamlining the road to production
- Lead complex platform initiatives from concept through to production, driving alignment, unblocking dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of solid, reliable platform components that form the foundation of our products
- Maintain and operate a global, high availability infrastructure platform spread across 5 regions with round-the-clock usage, supporting our customer success and product development teams to deliver value to our customers. You will also participate in out-of-hours on-call rotas
- Champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD, SRE, networking and cloud security — raising the overall bar for quality and reliability
- Collaborate and consult with other engineering teams to help guide and influence their cloud architecture and usage of the platform, ensuring their road to production is smooth and pain-free
- Mentor and develop engineers, growing their design and architectural thinking, technical capabilities, and ability to operate at scale
- Research, evaluate, and drive adoption of new tools, frameworks, or architectural patterns that improve developer experience, platform resilience, and delivery velocity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UnderwriteMe was founded in 2012 to shake up the UK insurance sector. At the time, life insurance underwriting was an inefficient process typified by a fractured market, slow processes, and non-standardised evidence. UnderwriteMe released its Underwriting Engine which untangled and greatly accelerated the process, allowing it to grow to become the leading provider of insurance tech products across Europe, Asia, and North America.
As a tech-first company, UnderwriteMe has continued to develop its product, innovating to remain at the forefront of the insurance tech sector. It has moved into AI, with its Text Mining Lab that uses natural language processing to read unstructured medical reports and automatically convert them into usable data. It has also formed major strategic partnerships to improve the product, one example being with United Healthcare Group, allowing medical screening requests to be sent electronically. This further shortens the underwriting decision-making process for users of the platform.
Its focus on innovation and strategic partnerships has yielded success, generating significant buzz in the insurance sector and more than 50% year-on-year growth. Moving ahead it will continue to develop its product, doubling down on AI-augmented decision-making tools to further increase the efficiency of the underwriting process.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
60 people
Indigo King, Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Our mission
Shaping the future of life insurance underwriting through AIInsights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"Still being fairly small (150 people) and scaling means people can make an impact and be involved in projects, uncover new opportunities and..."
Company benefits
- Life Assurance - The Company provides a lump sum benefit payment, 9x salary
- Group Income Protection - The aim is to provide an income to employees if they are unable to work long-term, as a result of an illness or injury. 75% of basic salary
- Private Medical Insurance - Provided for all employees via Bupa Healthcare
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme - Up to 15%. The Company offers a group stakeholder pension to aid employees in planning for their future
- Money towards remote setup - £350 for you to be set up and comfortable working remotely
- Employee Assistance Programme - Providing employees with third-party advice on a variety of topics including mental health
- Subsidised Gym Membership - The company subsidises memberships to any gym of employees' choice
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity scheme
- Bonus Scheme - based on individual and company performance
- 30 days a year working remotely - The opportunity to work abroad or from your home country (for those who may have moved country). This can be broken up through the year
- 24/7 GP Consultation - Through the Employee Assistance Programme, WeCare, employees and their families have access to a UK-based GP anytime it's needed
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme - Enables employees to purchase cycling equipment tax-free by paying for it in installments through salary sacrifice deductions
- 25 days holiday plus company closure for wellbeing days (4x extra days off in 2023)
Company values
- Impact Oriented: Driven by meaningful results, prioritising actions that deliver significant outcomes and contribute to team success. Motivated by value creation and business impact, not titles or status.
- Entrepreneurial: Demonstrate initiative and a proactive approach to identifying and seizing the right opportunities. Show resilience in the face of challenges and maintains a bias for action.
- Curiosity: Exhibit a strong desire to learn and understand new concepts. Approach problems with creativity and persistence, consistently seeking effective solutions.
- Technically Great: Possess a deep understanding of relevant technical skills and knowledge applicable to job role . Apply technical expertise effectively to solve complex issues.
- Strategic Thinkers: Demonstrate an understanding of the broader impact of their role and decisions. Effectively balances immediate actions with strategic planning to ensure alignment with medium-term and long-term organisational objectives.
- Adaptability: Open to feedback and willing to learn from others. Show a growth mindset and the ability to adapt and improve.
Company HQ
St Katharine's & Wapping, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Andrew Doran
(CEO)Prevously Global Chief Underwriter at Pacif Life Re and was an Underwriting Strategy Manager for Aviva.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at UnderwriteMe
Nana (Gyasi)
- Fostering cultural awareness in our organisation
- Enhancing the diversity within our Underwrite Me team
- Reviving our learning curriculum to enhance DE&I knowledge
- Building on our existing affinity groups and DE&I initiatives
- Optimising our hiring practices and removing bias
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