Principal Engineer, hyperexponential
2+ days a week in office (Borough, Southbank)
Modelling and analytics for weird and wonderful data sets
Open for applications
Modelling and analytics for weird and wonderful data sets
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office (Borough, Southbank)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine technology to transform analytical decision-making, helping customers make smarter decisions faster.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrates deep technical expertise in complex SaaS products
- Proven track record of delivering complex projects and scaling systems in high-growth environments
- Skilled in designing, implementing, and evolving scalable, performant, and reliable systems
- Experience with creating and executing decommissioning or migration strategies for legacy systems
- Adept at identifying and leading initiatives to improve system observability, performance, and reliability
- Brings a strong product mindset, ensuring engineering solutions align with customer and business priorities
- Experienced in managing and evolving foundational technical platforms and shared services
- Deep understanding of security and compliance requirements, ensuring systems meet industry standards
- Proficient in engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code
- Skilled in using data-driven metrics, such as DORA and SLAs, to guide continuous engineering improvement
- Demonstrates the ability to mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Proactively influences and aligns cross-functional teams around technical goals, navigating complex organisational structures
- Advocates for engineering best practices across hx, promoting a high-performance engineering culture
- Demonstrates strong communication skills, effectively collaborating with executives and senior stakeholders to prioritise technical initiatives
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction and delivery excellence of our engineering organisation.
- You will partner with senior leadership, including the VP of Engineering and Engineering Directors, to define and execute a multi-year technical strategy while working closely with our team of Staff Engineers to drive impactful outcomes
- Act as a key leader in defining and owning architecture decisions that align with hx’s goals
- Partner with the VP of Engineering, Engineering Directors, and cross-functional teams to shape and execute engineering strategy
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers to drive alignment and technical innovation across teams
- Create and maintain multi-year technical roadmaps, ensuring clarity on long-term investments and short-term deliverables
- Lead initiatives to manage technical debt, implementing proven strategies to reduce risk while maintaining delivery momentum
- Proactively optimise engineering functions to focus on high-quality software delivery, recognising that quality accelerates speed over time
- Balance short-term product delivery needs with long-term technical sustainability and system scalability
Application process
- Initial chat with our Talent team to kick things off
- Manager Interview (60 minutes)
- Skills Interviews:
- Technical Assessment (120 minutes)
- Roleplay Interview (60 minutes)
- Values Interview
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.
hyperexponential currently works with 13 of the largest insurers in Europe and is growing fast. In addition, the company launched Renew Connect, a partnership programme which offers integrations between all the best-of-breed solutions for insurers like Insurdata and Inari, and ensures the data flows freely and consistently between them.
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Opportunities to learn
"For people who want to grow their career - hx is the place to be. The company welcomes innovation and creativity - if you can dream it you can build..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91m
Company benefits
- Very staff-friendly share options
- Regular remote & in-person hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
- Top-spec equipment
- Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together
- Life insurance and income protection
- £2,500 annual individual training budget plus £2500 for team training and conference budget + access to Udemy
- 33 days annual leave (incl. public holidays)
- Private Health Insurance through AXA - including medical, dental, mental health cover + gym membership
- Mental healthcare with our partner Spectrum.life and well-being budget via Juno
- Company pension scheme via Penfold
- Snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry with access to the gym
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
(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.
Michael Johnson
(CPO)Maths/CompSci graduate, qualified actuary and previous Pricing/Analytics Manager at Tokio Marine Kiln.
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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