Engineering Manager, hyperexponential
£120-140k
2-3 days a week in office
Modelling and analytics for weird and wonderful data sets
Open for applications
Modelling and analytics for weird and wonderful data sets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£120-140k
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine technology to transform analytical decision-making, helping customers make smarter decisions faster.
Role
Who you are
- People management (both the good and the difficult): usually 4-6 direct reports
- 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
- 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)
- Technical Interview (120 mins)
- Values Interview (90 mins)
- 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 specialty and commercial insurance markets. The product has broad applications, but the company's initial focus is on specialty 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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
37% female employees
69% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
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
- Share options
- Regular remote hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
- Top-spec equipment
- Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together
- £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
- Enhanced pension 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 our first Value Consultant. He's made a big impact, and after a year was promoted to Value Consulting Manager, where he now manages 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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