Mid-level Web Engineer, Napo Pet Insurance
£50-70k
2-5 days a week in office
Pet insurance provider
Job no longer available
Pet insurance provider
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£50-70k
2-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Napo's mission is to ensure that pet owners have everything they need so that that their pets live long, healthy and happy lives.
Role
Who you are
- You’re experienced in web development and enjoy delivering excellent end-to-end customer experience in what you build
- You're on top of the latest trends in web development such as JavaScript and CSS as well as modern tooling, whilst being attentive to considerations such as accessibility, performance and testing
- You’ll have worked with React or another popular framework in the past and understand modern framework concepts
- You work well in a team, as well as independently, and have a willingness to learn and grow
What the job involves
- We're looking for a mid-level web engineer to join our engineering team and build amazing experiences for our customers
- You'll work closely with the CPO, Lead Web Engineer and Lead Designer to help us build the best pet insurance product in the UK. You'll work within a cross-disciplinary team on projects that you will own from start to finish to improve our product and internal tools
- Our stack is brand new, written in TypeScript, built with Next.js and React, and is continuously deployed via Vercel with end-to-end testing. We leverage packages where necessary and have defined our own shared component library which we end-to-end test
Salary benchmarks
Our take
High claims and a small market have traditionally made pet insurance an unappealing option for big insurers. With household pet ownership ballooning in the UK over the pandemic, however, that market is growing, and a flurry of startups are cropping up to cash in. Napo is a relatively young entrant to the scene, offering a comprehensive platform of low-excess insurance and wellbeing services for British pet-owners.
Pet insurance customers are a different and a more discerning breed to, for example, car insurance customers. Providers need to court pet-owners with a more comprehensive suite of coverage, including advertising costs and rewards for missing pets, and bereavement counselling. Napo ticks all these boxes, but they are rapidly becoming an industry standard in a way that requires more to stand out.
Trupanion, for example, are investing in high-tech streamlining solutions to help facilitate scaling without service quality taking a hit. And the larger, better established pet insurtech, Bought by Many, recently won a hefty sum in the pet industry’s largest VC investment deal. Napo have a friendly brand, and are entering into a growing market, but will have to adapt fast to keep pace.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2025
$15.9m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$19.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.6m
Company benefits
- Generous stock options package
- Remote-friendly work environment (we ideally have people in the office 2 days per week - it's a nice office in central London!)
- Flexible working hours and leave policy (25 days annual holidays - excluding bank holidays), plus your birthday as an additional day off 🎁
- All the equipment you need to do your best work
- Budget for personal growth and training
- BUPA health insurance plus unlimited GP video consultations
- YuLife app (we're a bit obsessed with Yudoku...)
- Company-funded therapy when you need it
- And of course, pet insurance for your beloved pets!
Company HQ
Chelsea, London, UK
Leadership
Ludovic Lacay
(CPO)Previously CPO at Tictrac, before moving on to work as Product Lead at Facebook.
Prior to Napo, he was co-founder and CBO at Tictrac, then Executive Director of Business Development and Partnerships at Babylon Health.
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