Senior React Native Engineer, Napo Pet Insurance
£75-100k
2-5 days a week in office
Pet insurance provider
Job no longer available
Pet insurance provider
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£75-100k
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
- Expert in React Native - you’ve used React Native commercially to build iOS and Android apps
- Experience in using Expo or similar tooling for app delivery to Apple’s App Store and Google Play
- As well as React Native, you’ll have worked with React and understand the framework and its modern concepts
- You have the ability to build end-to-end customer-centric mobile experiences
- You’re familiar with the notion of deploying quickly and often, testing in production and rolling features out gradually using experimentation and continuous delivery platforms to do so
- You know how to stay on top of the latest trends and can test new practices and approaches quickly
- You’ve worked on developing products for consumers, and iterated quickly until these products created real value
- You work well in a team, as well as independently, and have a willingness to learn and grow
- You've successfully launched mobile apps from the ground up, scaling them to accommodate a substantial user base
What the job involves
- You’ll join the Training, Socialisation and Prevention squad which is focussed on creating great products and services which we provide to our members alongside our core insurance offering
- Over the last few months, the squad have released features such as Puppy Academy and more recently we’ve turned our focus to our adolescent dog segment where we are releasing an on-demand experience where owners can learn at a pace that suits them
- We now want to expand the offering further, by providing a native app that allows members more ready access to the products we are working on
- You’ll lead the creation of this app from the ground up using React Native and other technologies while creating the infrastructure to allow experienced React engineers to contribute to the continued development of the app
- You’ll also work alongside our team of backend engineers to define and implement API contracts required for delivering a great app experience and will define the testing approach for the mobile app
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
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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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