Backend Software Engineer, hyperexponential
Kotlin / Python
£60-80k
2-3 days a week in office
AI-powered platform transforming risk and pricing decisions
Job no longer available
AI-powered platform transforming risk and pricing decisions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£60-80k
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the decision infrastructure that helps the world take on more risk with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Experience using Kotlin / JVM technologies with Spring & Hibernate
- Understanding of Version Control Systems (VCS) and the principles behind them
- Basic knowledge of Python and/or Typescript is a plus but is not required
- Have a demonstrably good working knowledge of fundamental computer science and software engineering principles (algorithms, data structures, complexity, design patterns, architecture)
- Have experience of a complete product development lifecycle (conception through to delivery)
What the job involves
- 2024 has been a big year for hyperexponential. Our profile is growing rapidly, and our customer base with it. We have tonnes of exciting features to develop and we want to deliver more of them in parallel, sooner, safer, than we've ever done before
- To make sure we're set for the future we're going to be looking at all our systems, refreshing most of them and reworking the rest to get us ready for anything. It's a deeply exciting prospect for us, and your mission will be to help us deliver this!
- The Model Development Experience (MDX) Team’s mission is to empower our customers to build and iterate their models faster, easier and with advanced tooling to provide novel insights and assistance
- In addition to these new experiences, we are committed to improving our existing user flows and modularising our technical systems to reduce complex coupling with other teams
- Help us build the right thing by working with product managers, designers, fellow engineers and (sometimes) customers to understand problems and develop solutions
- Help us build the thing right by writing high-quality, thoughtful, simple, commented, documented, tested, well-structured code aligned to our constants, principles and standards
- Help drive our technical standards, decisions, and strategy
- Continually learn and improve yourself - experiment and play with new technologies through your work and hackathons
- Help reduce friction and eliminate impediments that slow us down
- Help your team and the company evolve our ways of working as we grow into new scales of operation
- Coordinate with other engineering teams to manage cross team dependencies and cooperate on Engineering-wide initiatives
- Help support our product in production by joining an on-call rota
Application process
- Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
- Manager Interview
- Skills Interview
- Values Interview
- We offer!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
hyperexponential was created to provide modelling software to help people and businesses build, deploy and manage analytical models that work with small, sparse and fragmented datasets. Its goal is to make teams more agile, collaborate more deeply, and work more productively.
hyperexponential's pricing and data-driven decision-making software is built for the speciality and commercial insurance markets. The product has broad applications, but the company's initial focus is on speciality insurance, a sector the founders know well, having worked there for more than a decade.
The company's making a name for itself too, working with some of Europe's biggest insurers to transform how pricing decisions are made. And its newest launch, hx AI, blends powerful AI with its core platform to help insurers build smarter models, faster. It's a strong signal that hyperexponential is not just growing, but ready to lead the way.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91m
Company benefits
- £5,000 for individual and group training and conference budget
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holiday days (33 in total)
- Company pension scheme via Penfold
- Mental health and therapy provision via Spectrum.life
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA
- Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc)
- Regular remote & in-person hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
- Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry
Company values
- We are owners - We help move hyperexponential forward without being told
- We push boundaries - We keep going for ourselves and our customers when most would stop
- We grow - We learn deeply, by making things. We improve through data and insights
- We go deeper - We apply a thoughtful and customer centric mindset to all we do
- We do the right thing - We are usually nice, never disrespectful, and always kind
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Amrit Santhirasenan
(Co-Founder & CEO)CompSci at the University of York, qualified Actuary and previous Head of Pricing and Analytics of Tokio Marine Kiln, one of the largest managing agents at Lloyd’s.
People progressing
They joined hyperexponential in 2020 when the company still had a fairly small Engineering team. They were given the opportunity to step in as a Team Lead and ended up being one of the first Team Leaders within ProdEng.
Charlotte joined hx in 2022 and progressed from Project Manager to Delivery Lead, now driving strategic programmes and helping scale how we deliver cross-functional work.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at hyperexponential
Rotem Ben-David (Head of People Operations & Performance)
- We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work and culture is. We are not yet where we want to be in terms of balance, but it is our mission to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds and perspectives and we are working hard towards that goal.
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