Engineering Manager, hyperexponential
£110-140k
2-3 days a week in office
AI-powered platform transforming risk and pricing decisions
Job no longer available
AI-powered platform transforming risk and pricing decisions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£110-140k
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the decision infrastructure that helps the world take on more risk with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- People management (both the good and the difficult) - 4-6 direct reports - at least 1 year managing (performance reviews, 1:1, strategy for team)
- Engineering background (backend)
- Web services
- Database technology - we currently use PostgreSQL (behind RDS), but any SQL and NoSQL experience is great
- APIs - structure and design best practices (including things like security, resilience, versioning...)
- Platform architecture and design - we use AWS, Terraform, Docker
- We currently use Golang, Rust, Kotlin, and Python - experience with any of them would be great, but experience using any relatively modern language is what is required
- Processes such as Software Development Lifecycles, Personal Development planning, Enterprise customer strategies
- 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 product management experience
What the job involves
- Line manage a group of mixed seniority backend engineers across a number of vertical teams
- Conduct regular 1:2:1s to give and receive feedback
- Coaching and mentoring
- Personal development, including training
- Performance management
- Quarterly and annual reviews
- Become a technical point of authority within the areas of remit of the backend engineers that you manage. Provide technical oversight, guidance and advice within your team and across 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 sub-in for any of your engineers for sales calls and triage/design sessions and workshops
- Provide technical feedback on work done by the engineers you manage, and make sure that work is aligned with hx's quality and security standards
- Aid in driving delivery across a number of vertical value stream teams - working closely with each team's product manager, and peer front-end engineering managers
- Work with (y)our VP of Engineering to plan the technology and architectural road-map
- Partner with Senior and/or Staff Engineers to set up and facilitate ideation sessions and technical workshops, and help product managers generate work from those
- Help manage the visibility and execution of system work (i.e. non-feature work)
- Grow the external visibility of the product engineering team at hx, and externally via speaking engagements, conferences, blogging etc
- Be able to help attract top engineering talent and grow (i.e. be the hiring manager) your team whilst managing team retention
- Help grow and steer hx towards management best practices
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.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91m
Company benefits
- £5,000 for individual and group training and conference budget
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holiday days (33 in total)
- Company pension scheme via Penfold
- Mental health and therapy provision via Spectrum.life
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA
- Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc)
- Regular remote & in-person hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights
- Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry
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
Articles
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.
Charlotte joined hx in 2022 and progressed from Project Manager to Delivery Lead, now driving strategic programmes and helping scale how we deliver cross-functional work.
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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