Director of Engineering, hyperexponential
£140-150k
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
£140-150k
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
- You are the vital link between the VP Engineering and your department, with your team’s output directly reflecting on your own success
- You set a high bar, take full accountability for performance, and manage upwards to support the VP while empowering your team to operate autonomously
- Your influence and example lift your team and the entire engineering function
- With a foundation of trust and clarity in expectations, your team follows your lead without the need for micromanagement
- You foster an environment where accountability is widespread, enabling high standards to be met consistently
- You strike a balance between approachability and decisiveness, managing issues promptly and constructively
- A commitment to the growth and well-being of your team is at the heart of your leadership
- You’re vigilant about workload and stress levels, promoting open dialogue to address concerns before they escalate
- Your coaching approach helps engineers excel both technically and professionally
- Demonstrated experience as a Director/Head of Engineering, with a track record of leading large engineering teams and influencing organisational culture
- You gain a solid technical understanding of our platform and can make or advise on decisions impacting architecture, scalability, and design
- Proven expertise in managing cloud-native, distributed applications, and services, with deep knowledge of scalable architecture and cloud infrastructure
- You identify and elevate high-performing individuals and teams, optimising both output and team health
- Strong grounding in core computer science principles and software engineering practices, including complexity, algorithms, data structures, testing, and system design
- Significant experience with modern software delivery methodologies, such as agile, lean, and DevOps, with a history of driving organisational design that promotes efficiency, collaboration, and innovation
- You view every decision through the lens of the end-user experience, prioritising quality and reliability to deliver a product that customers trust and value
- Demonstrable ability to develop and execute a technical strategy aligned with business goals and customer needs
- A track record of attracting, inspiring, and retaining top engineering talent, with a knack for creating high-performing, motivated, and collaborative teams
- Experience in establishing engineering standards and workflows that eliminate friction, enabling teams to achieve outcomes that exceed traditional expectations
What the job involves
- As Director of Engineering, you’ll be joining an already impactful and agile engineering organisation and play a vital role in helping us scale to even greater heights
- You will work closely with the VP of Engineering and the Technology leadership team to build on our current successes, sharpening our focus on high performance, innovation, and resilience
- You’ll provide leadership across our autonomous Technology teams, each led by Engineering and Product Managers, and will bring the strategic insight and operational depth to help drive the next phase of our journey as we continue to innovate and deliver value at scale
- You will be responsible for advancing technical strategy, delivery excellence, and people development across the Technology function
- This role is pivotal to hyperexponential's next phase of growth, requiring a balance of strategic foresight, technical insight, and empathetic leadership to build on a foundation of excellence and drive our engineering organisation to the next level
- 1 month
- Build on the established leadership framework for your direct reports, setting performance expectations and team goals
- Take a hands-on approach to understand the team structure and current pastoral care plans, identifying opportunities to enhance support and well-being
- Assess team dynamics, identifying areas where additional mentorship or growth support can accelerate our momentum
- 3 months:
- Integrate seamlessly into the Technology leadership team, contributing to the execution of our engineering roadmap in alignment with product goals
- Develop a comprehensive technical understanding of the Renew platform, enabling you to provide guidance and refine decision-making on technical initiatives
- Deliver early contributions to VP-led initiatives, enhancing existing processes or accelerating initiatives already underway (specific milestones to be set)
- 6 months:
- Refine and execute our engineering strategy to keep Renew’s technical roadmap aligned with hyperexponential's 3-year product and revenue ambitions
- Working closely with Technology leadership, help optimise our delivery model to sustain and improve alignment with our strategic goals
- Establish a robust hiring strategy to address anticipated growth, regularly conducting gap analyses across teams to ensure we’re building the right capabilities at the right time
- Strengthen and evolve our engineering strategy and roadmap, in close collaboration with Technology leadership
- Foster an even stronger partnership with the Product function to sustain alignment in priorities, resourcing, and delivery goals
- Serve as a leader of leaders, ensuring pastoral care, technical coaching, and career development are in place and evolving across all engineering teams
- Drive continuous improvement by reinforcing best practices, setting the bar for engineering quality, and actively managing delivery risks
- Champion a customer-first mindset, ensuring that all engineering efforts directly support a superior user experience, product reliability and timely delivery
Application process
- Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
- Manager Interview (60 mins)
- Technical Interview (120 mins)
- Values Interview (90 mins)
- Meet the CEO/Co-Founder (30 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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