Data Engineer, UnderwriteMe
1+ day a week in office
Building software products for the life insurance market
Be an early applicant
Building software products for the life insurance market
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
1+ day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Using tech to ensure everyone who wants life insurance can access it.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll be highly self-motivated, able to absorb new ideas or concepts quickly, and apply these to the betterment of the team – seeking opportunities for the team, rather than waiting to be asked
- You’ll have a passion for the data and AI industry as a whole – keen to apply tools or techniques you’ve come across into workable solutions
- You’ll be a skilled problem-solver and troubleshooter, capable of diagnosing complex data issues quickly and effectively
- You take ownership of your work end-to-end and care deeply about data quality, reliability, and the impact of what you build
- You seek out feedback from your team, peers, and stakeholders, and act on it thoughtfully. You show humility, admit when you’re wrong, learn from mistakes, and create an environment where others feel safe to do the same
- Experience with DataOps methods and data quality improvement techniques
- Experience with agile methodologies and continuous delivery
- Experience with continuous integration pipelines and technologies
- Experience with DevOps concepts and tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes etc.)
- Proficiency with cloud services (ideally AWS)
- Proficiency with data modelling tools and techniques (dbt)
- Experience or proven interest with large scale data processing (Spark, Hadoop, Pig etc.)
- Proficiency with structured or custom ETL/ELT management (Airflow, Dagster, etc.)
- Experience or proven interest in AI/MLOps technologies
- Proficiency with SQL databases (Relational, Snowflake, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in evolving our already advanced data technology stack (Snowflake, dbt, etc.) to one that’s industry leading
- You will work in a fast-paced environment alongside product, analytics, and engineering teams, contributing to the development of products and datasets to be used by our AI, analytics and products directly
- Design, develop and support key data pipelines, products and services that power analytics, AI, and customer-facing features
- Work with key business domains to understand their requirements; extracting and modelling data to match these requirements
- Draw upon broader industry techniques to data management and implement them proactively
- Design, implement and optimise large scale data management solutions, balancing cost and efficiency
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance or data quality issues; ensuring well modelled data that consistently achieves data quality benchmarks
- Communicate technical concepts and designs to non-technical stakeholders
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
- Money towards remote setup - £350 for you to be set up and comfortable working remotely
- 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
- 30 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 plus company closure for wellbeing days (4x extra days off in 2023)
Company values
- Impact Oriented: Driven by meaningful results, prioritising actions that deliver significant outcomes and contribute to team success. Motivated by value creation and business impact, not titles or status.
- Entrepreneurial: Demonstrate initiative and a proactive approach to identifying and seizing the right opportunities. Show resilience in the face of challenges and maintains a bias for action.
- Curiosity: Exhibit a strong desire to learn and understand new concepts. Approach problems with creativity and persistence, consistently seeking effective solutions.
- Technically Great: Possess a deep understanding of relevant technical skills and knowledge applicable to job role . Apply technical expertise effectively to solve complex issues.
- Strategic Thinkers: Demonstrate an understanding of the broader impact of their role and decisions. Effectively balances immediate actions with strategic planning to ensure alignment with medium-term and long-term organisational objectives.
- Adaptability: Open to feedback and willing to learn from others. Show a growth mindset and the ability to adapt and improve.
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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