Full-Stack Engineer, Ki Insurance
2-3 days a week in office (The Leadenhall Building, London)
Algorithmically driven insurance provider
Job no longer available
Algorithmically driven insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office (The Leadenhall Building, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To digitise the entire follow market, offering multiple capacity quotes all at once, all in one place.
Role
Who you are
- Commercial experience as a mid to senior level engineer working across a modern web stack
- Strong software engineering principles (SOLID, DRY, ER modelling)
- Professional experience with a server-side language, ideally JVM based
- Professional experience building web-based single page applications, using React/Typescript or an equivalent
- Knowledge of front-end development, able to build rich user interfaces following a responsive design
- HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility
- Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, familiar with standard logging and monitoring tools used to investigate issues
- Experience with continuous integration, or ideally, continuous delivery
- Strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven) and version control tools (e.g. Git/Github)
- Experience working in agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban, participating in regular ceremonies including stand-ups, planning, and retrospectives
What the job involves
- Build robust and scalable software for business critical, web-based applications
- Build eye-catching, functional, efficient, and reusable web and mobile-based sites that drive these web applications
- Design, build, test, document and maintain API’s and integrations
- Ensure quality control using industry standard techniques such as automated testing, pairing, and code review
- Work with the Product team to understand end-user requirements and translate them into an effective technical solution
- Document technical design and analysis work
- Assess current system architecture and identify opportunities for growth and improvement
- Build mock-ups or prototypes to explore and troubleshoot new initiatives
- Work with the Product team and UX designers to review designs, implement new features, and ensure user experience is top level
- Explore new ideas and emerging technologies, develop prototypes quickly
- Uphold the engineering team’s principles and ways of working
Application process
- Screening call with Ki's TA team - 30 mins
- Interview with an Engineering Manager - 30 mins
- Take Home Exercise - 1/2 hours
- Technical interview - 90 mins
- Final competency based interview - 45 mins
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ki is an insurance provider looking to revolutionise the commercial insurance sector. It is entirely digital driven by algorithms, setting risk parameters and managing claims and exposure. It offers instant, on-demand access for users and clients, designed specifically with brokers in mind to evaluate policies and quotes using a platform optimised for efficiency and responsiveness. As part of this, Ki promises to follow leader's terms and always offers an instant line.
Ki is a Lloyd's of London syndicate for providing capital and accepting insurance risks, and was built as a collaboration between Google and specialised insurer Brit. It claims to offer the fastest route for brokers to receive a quote for their clients on the Lloyd's market.
Now the company is closing out a big chapter with a bold step forward. After separating from Brit, Ki is now ready to operate as its own company within the Fairfax Group and it has also teamed up with QBE to boost capacity across 11 major business lines, so brokers have even more access to quality cover through its digital platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
69% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $500m
Company benefits
- 27 days annual leave and 8 culture and diversity leave days
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Discounted gym membership
- Life cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee share ownership plan
- Volunteering opportunities
- Flexible working opportunities
- Up to 26 weeks’ fully paid parental leave
- And many more…
Company values
- Know your customer: Put yourself in their shoes. Understand and balance the different needs of our customers, acting with integrity and empathy to create something excellent
- Grow together: Empower each other to succeed. Recognize the work of our teams, while celebrating individual success. Embrace diverse perspectives so we can develop and grow together
- Be courageous: Think big, push boundaries. Don’t be afraid to fail because that’s how we learn. Test, adapt, improve - always strive to be better
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Mark Allan
(CEO)Previously a Non Executive Director for Simply Business and comparethemarket. Currently a Director at Sussex Capital and Executive Director at Brit Insurance.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ki Insurance
- Happy, valued and accepted. These three words capture how we like every employee to feel at work
- Our culture is one where you can be yourself. We think that if you bring your authentic self to work, then you will thrive, and we will too. Building a diverse and inclusive culture doesn’t happen overnight though. It’s a journey that our people are part of
- Take our People Forum for example. Employees can contribute to topics like race, identity, sexual orientation, belonging, disability and mental wellbeing. We encourage our people to meet across teams, share personal stories and understand different perspectives. It puts our people at the heart of shaping our inclusive workplace
- Supporting diversity initiatives such as Pride are part of our way of life here and we already have much to be proud of. Our Gender Pay Gap is similar to our peers and we actively look at ways to improve
- Our aspiration is to encourage everyone to be conscious advocates of diversity and inclusion. It is a very real business priority of ours. Together we will make this happen
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