Model Developer, hyperexponential
£50-80k
1-2 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
£50-80k
1-2 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
- A flair for Python - we’ll take you to the next level here but you’ll need production grade Python experience to hit the ground running
- 2-3+ years of experience using predictive modelling and advanced analytics methods (our preference would be for any exposure to insurance or reinsurance pricing techniques, but we're open to different backgrounds)
- A self-starter attitude - you can operate autonomously within a high-trust, high-accountability environment. You proactively drive your own personal development and stay up-to-date with the latest industry/tech trends and challenges
- Evidence of a passion for experimenting with new approaches and technologies both through your work and extracurricular learning - we host a lot of hackathons so you won’t be short of opportunities!
Desirable
- Experience working in a customer-facing role
- Insurance market knowledge that will boost hyperexponential's ability to support initiatives in Lloyd’s, the IFoA and elsewhere
What the job involves
- Learn the hx Renew modelling platform - you’ll ship your first models independently within days!
- Build models in Python for seamless integration, using cutting edge approaches
- Work directly with customer actuarial teams, partner developers and our internal development teams to solve the most complex coding problems using Python
- Develop cutting-edge technical solutions while working with incredibly bright, passionate, ambitious people
- Review our existing Python model development approach and contribute to our best-practice guides
Application process
- Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off
- Manager Interview
- Skills Interview
- Values Interview
- 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 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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
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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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