Mid-level Software Engineer, UnderwriteMe
Building software products for the life insurance market
Job no longer available
Building software products for the life insurance market
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
Using tech to ensure everyone who wants life insurance can access it.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- A product mindset: you own the product, you care about customer outcomes, and you want to make data-informed decisions
- Experience modernizing a software platform incrementally
- Delivered real world solutions using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach
- Good understanding of Clean Code and approaches like Ports & Adapters
- Continuous Delivery (CD) mindset
- Collaborative approach to building software such as pair programming
- API design
- Delivered reliable, robust and scalable solutions on a Cloud platform
- Deep knowledge of our preferred tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, k8s, AWS, Datadog
Desirable
- An understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and the use of approaches like Event Storming
- Event-driven architectures
- Design using an API first approach
- Integrating and building solutions with our partners such as Auth0, customer.io
- Good working knowledge of our legacy tech stack: grails, groovy, spock
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Mid-Level Software Engineer to join UnderwriteMe's Engineering team to work on our Protection Platform product
- The Protection Platform is our B2B SaaS marketplace for financial advisers and brokers that we believe is the future of distribution. It therefore plays a crucial role in achieving the mission
- Currently, we are undergoing a significant business transformation to transition our platform into a SaaS business. This transformation includes significant changes to our business model, platform features, UI/UX, and overall user experience to enhance the value proposition for our customers
- Evolving the product to reinforce its leading position on the protection market, and to develop new offerings
- Implementing simple and efficient solutions to explore product features
- Considering data as first-class citizen to support product team decisions and provide valuable insights to our partners
- Applying high engineering standards to empower our product in these challenging times. This involves both: o contributing to and maintaining our existing systems/codebases o greenfield development as part of our architectural modernisation initiative
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
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
- 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
- 20 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 per year increasing by 1 day for every 2 years service, plus 1 additional flexible day off per year
Company values
- People: Our people are our greatest asset. We continuously develop ourselves and empower each other, embracing our diverse perspectives, experiences and strengths, to actively contribute to our overall success.
- Integrity: We do the right thing for our customers, people, and communities and hold each other accountable for maintaining their trust in our promises.
- Courage: We innovate and make UnderwriteMe stronger by seeking diverse perspectives, testing different ways of operating and engaging in constructive debate.
- Partnership: Relationships are at the center of our business, and we work together as one team to meet the needs of our key stakeholders.
- Enduring Strength: We take pride in being here for the long-term. Our financial strength, resilience and risk mindset enables our customers to worry less and live more.
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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