Senior Engineering Manager, hyperexponential
£120-145k
2 days a week in office
Insurance pricing software
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Insurance pricing software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£120-145k
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the insurance industry through the power of decision intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- People management (both the good and the difficult): usually 7-9 direct reports (with potentially multiple teams)
- Minimum of two years managing (performance reviews, 1:1, regular feedback, technical roadmaps, and team strategy)
- Bonus points if you have also mentored or managed Junior Engineering Managers (or helped people onto the EM path)
- Hands-on previous experience with technologies and concepts:
- Web services
- Database technology: We currently use PostgreSQL (AWS RDS), but any SQL or NoSQL experience will be a plus
- APIs - structure and design best practices (including security, resilience, versioning)
- Platform architecture and design - we use AWS, Terraform, Docker
- We currently use Rust, Kotlin, and Python. Experience with any of them would be great, but experience using any relatively modern language is required
- Processes such as Software Development Lifecycles, Personal Development Planning, Enterprise customer strategies
- Agile methodologies - Scrum, Kanban etc
- Experience hiring and retaining high-quality engineering talent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in growing and retaining a team
- Foresight and planning experience
- Bonus points for project and product management experience
What the job involves
- Our profile is growing rapidly, and our customer base with it (including breaking into the US!)
- We have many exciting features to develop, and we want to deliver more of them in parallel, sooner, and safer than we've ever done before
- To ensure we're set for the future, we will 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!
- Line manage a group of mixed seniority Software Engineers
- Taking care of your team:
- Conducting regular 1:2:1s and building trust with your engineers
- Coaching and mentoring
- Fostering personal development, including training and efficient usage of Learning & Development budgets
- Performance management and regular feedback sessions
- Participate in architecture and solution reviews as a key stakeholder for your team
- Grow your team as both a hiring manager and an experienced engineer guiding your team members' growth opportunities
- Drive our technical excellence with clear communication, thoughtful decisions, and impactful strategy
- Help your team and the company evolve our ways of working as we grow into new scales of operation
- Partner with Senior and/or Staff Engineers to set up and facilitate ideation sessions and technical workshops. Support product managers in converting the outcomes into product features
- Coordinate with other engineering managers across team dependencies and cooperate on Engineering-wide initiatives
- Being a technical point of authority within the areas of the remit of the backend engineers that you manage. Provide technical oversight, guidance and advice within your team and the organisation. This is not a hands-on role, but a level of technical authority will be critical when interacting with the engineers. You should be able to substitute for any of your engineers for sales calls and triage/design sessions and workshops
- Work with (y)our Director of Engineering to plan the technology and architectural road-map
- Grow the external visibility of the product engineering team at hx and externally via speaking engagements, conferences, blogging, etc
- You must be able to help attract top engineering talent and grow (i.e., be the hiring manager) your team while managing team retention
Application process
- Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
- Manager Interview (60 mins)
- Leadership Interview (45 mins)
- Technical Interview - Systems Design whiteboard (90 mins)
- Meet the VP Engineering (60 mins)
- Values Interview (90 mins)
- We offer!
- Please note that background checks will be conducted as part of the hiring process to ensure compliance with our governance policie
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91m
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.
Josef joined hyperexponential in 2023 as the first Value Consultant. They have made a big impact, and after a year they were promoted to Value Consulting Manager, where they now manage a team.
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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